| Title:
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FIGURES IN BLACK
WORDS, SIGNS, AND THE `RACIAL' SELF |
| By: |
Henry Louis Gates |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£16.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195060741 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195060744 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 1989 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
In this insightful volume, Gates focuses critcal attention on the most repressed element of African-American criticism - the language of the text. Incorporating the theoretical insights of critics such as Bakhtin, Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, and Bloom, he explores the work of a wide range of African-American writers from Phillis Wheatley to Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker. |
| Synopsis: |
In this volume, Gates focuses critical attention on the most repressed element of African-American criticism - the language of the text. Incorporating the theoretical insights of critics such as Bakhtin, Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, and Bloom, he explores the work of a wide range of African-American writers from Phillis Wheatley to Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker. |
| Illustrations: |
2 pp halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |