Faces of America [[electronic resource] ] : how 12 extraordinary people discovered their pasts / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Autore | Gates Henry Louis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 920.073 |
Soggetto topico | Genetic genealogy - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8147-3320-4
0-8147-3265-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on DNA Testing -- 1 Mike Nichols -- 2 Meryl Streep -- 3 Queen Noor -- 4 Louise Erdrich -- 5 Yo-Yo Ma -- 6 Dr. Mehmet Oz -- 7 Mario Batali -- 8 Elizabeth Alexander -- 9 Malcolm Gladwell -- 10 Stephen Colbert -- 11 Kristi Yamaguchi -- 12 Eva Longoria -- DNA Appendix -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459957303321 |
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Faces of America : how 12 extraordinary people discovered their pasts / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Autore | Gates Henry Louis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : New York University Press, , c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
Disciplina | 920.073 |
Soggetto topico | Genetic genealogy - United States |
ISBN |
0-8147-3320-4
0-8147-3265-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on DNA Testing -- 1 Mike Nichols -- 2 Meryl Streep -- 3 Queen Noor -- 4 Louise Erdrich -- 5 Yo-Yo Ma -- 6 Dr. Mehmet Oz -- 7 Mario Batali -- 8 Elizabeth Alexander -- 9 Malcolm Gladwell -- 10 Stephen Colbert -- 11 Kristi Yamaguchi -- 12 Eva Longoria -- DNA Appendix -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785298503321 |
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Figures in black [[electronic resource] ] : words, signs, and the "racial" self / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Autore | Gates Henry Louis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-972917-4
1-280-52425-1 9786610524259 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453963903321 |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c1987 | ||
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Figures in black [[electronic resource] ] : words, signs, and the "racial" self / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Autore | Gates Henry Louis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
ISBN |
0-19-972917-4
1-280-52425-1 9786610524259 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782089003321 |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c1987 | ||
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Loose canons [[electronic resource] ] : notes on the culture wars / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Autore | Gates Henry Louis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | xix, 199 p |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc
American literature - Study and teaching (Higher) Literature and society - United States African Americans - Intellectual life Race in literature Canon (Literature) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-65488-0
1-4237-3547-1 0-19-802451-7 1-60129-936-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Canon confidential: a Sam Slade caper -- The master's pieces: on canon formation and the African-American tradition -- Writing, "Race" and the difference it makes -- Talking black: critical signs of the times -- "Tell me, sir,...what IS "black" literature?" -- Integrating the American mind -- African-American studies in the 21st century -- "What's in a name?" Some meanings of blackness -- The big picture -- Trading on the margin: notes on the culture of criticism. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450422503321 |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 | ||
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Loose canons [[electronic resource] ] : notes on the culture wars / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Autore | Gates Henry Louis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | xix, 199 p |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc
American literature - Study and teaching (Higher) Literature and society - United States African Americans - Intellectual life Race in literature Canon (Literature) |
ISBN |
1-280-65488-0
1-4237-3547-1 0-19-802451-7 1-60129-936-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Canon confidential: a Sam Slade caper -- The master's pieces: on canon formation and the African-American tradition -- Writing, "Race" and the difference it makes -- Talking black: critical signs of the times -- "Tell me, sir,...what IS "black" literature?" -- Integrating the American mind -- African-American studies in the 21st century -- "What's in a name?" Some meanings of blackness -- The big picture -- Trading on the margin: notes on the culture of criticism. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783365003321 |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 | ||
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The signifying monkey [[electronic resource] ] : a theory of Afro-American literary criticism / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Autore | Gates Henry Louis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, c1988 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
Disciplina | 810/.9/896073 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc
African Americans - Intellectual life African Americans in literature Criticism - United States Oral tradition - United States Mythology, African, in literature African Americans American literature - African influences |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-09780-X
9786613097804 0-19-972275-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | PART ONE: A Theory of the Tradition; 1. A Myth of Origins: Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey; 2. The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning; 3. Figures of Signification; PART TWO: Reading the Tradition; 4. The Trope of the Talking Book; 5. Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text; 6. On "The Blackness of Blackness": Ishmael Reed and a Critique of the Sign; 7. Color Me Zora: Alice Walker's (Re) Writing of the Speakerly Text. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459699703321 |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c1988 | ||
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The signifying monkey [[electronic resource] ] : a theory of Afro-American literary criticism / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Autore | Gates Henry Louis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, c1988 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
Disciplina | 810/.9/896073 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc
African Americans - Intellectual life African Americans in literature Criticism - United States Oral tradition - United States Mythology, African, in literature African Americans American literature - African influences |
ISBN |
1-283-09780-X
9786613097804 0-19-972275-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | PART ONE: A Theory of the Tradition; 1. A Myth of Origins: Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey; 2. The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning; 3. Figures of Signification; PART TWO: Reading the Tradition; 4. The Trope of the Talking Book; 5. Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text; 6. On "The Blackness of Blackness": Ishmael Reed and a Critique of the Sign; 7. Color Me Zora: Alice Walker's (Re) Writing of the Speakerly Text. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789868703321 |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c1988 | ||
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