Figures in Black : words, signs, and the "racial" self / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1987.
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Table of Contents:
- Literary theory and the black tradition
- The literature of the slave. Phillis Wheatley and the nature of the negro
- Binary oppositions in chapter one of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, and 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
- Black structures of feeling. Dis and dat: Dialect and the descent
- The same difference: Reading Jean Toomer, 1923-1983
- Songs of a racial self: On Sterling A. Brown
- The "blackness of blackness": A critique of the sign and the signifying monkey.