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Title: FIGURES IN BLACK
WORDS, SIGNS, AND THE `RACIAL' SELF
By: Henry Louis Gates
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0195060741
ISBN 13: 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.
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
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