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FIGURES IN BLACK
WORDS, SIGNS, AND THE `RACIAL' SELF |
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Henry Louis Gates |
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ISBN 10: |
0195060741 |
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9780195060744 |
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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. |
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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. |
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2 pp halftones |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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