Figures in Black : words, signs, and the "racial" self / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wheatley, Phillis, 175301784.

Wheatley, Phillis.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Douglass, Frederick.

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967--History and criticism.

Toomer, Jean.

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Race in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxii, 311 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Contents:

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, 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

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.

Notes:

"Jacket design by Scott Lerman."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

019503564X

OCLC:

14187858