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Autore: | Gates Henry Louis |
Titolo: | Figures in black [[electronic resource] ] : words, signs, and the "racial" self / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, c1987 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9 |
Soggetto topico: | American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
African Americans in literature | |
Slavery in literature | |
Race awareness in literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Literary theory and the Black tradition -- Phillis Wheatley and the Nature of the Negro -- Binary oppositions in chapter one of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. Written by himself -- Frederick Douglass and the language of the self -- Parallel discursive universes : fictions of the self in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig -- Dis and dat : dialect and the descent -- The same difference : reading Jean Toomer, 1923- 1983 -- Song of a racial self : on Sterling A. Brown -- The blackness of Blackness. |
Sommario/riassunto: | For over two centuries, critics and the black community have tended to approach African-American literature as simply one more front in the important war against racism, valuing slave narratives and twentieth-century works alike, primarily for their political impact. In this volume, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a leading scholar in African-American studies, attacks the notion of African-American literature as a kind of social realism. Insisting, instead, that critics focus on the most repressed element of African-American criticism--the language of the text--Gates advocates the use of a close, m |
Titolo autorizzato: | Figures in black |
ISBN: | 0-19-972917-4 |
1-280-52425-1 | |
9786610524259 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910782089003321 |
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