01954nam a2200361Ia 4500 ebr10142211 CaPaEBR 20260707183622.0 m u cr cn||||||||| 860820s1987 nyua sb 001 0 eng d 86021782 0195060741 019503564X CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)647575621 PS153.N5 G27 1987eb 147199 118451 Gates, Henry Louis. 20630 Figures in black [electronic resource] : words, signs, and the "racial" self / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York : Oxford University Press, c1987. xxxii, 311 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Literary theory and the Black tradition -- 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 -- Dis and dat : dialect and the descent -- The same difference : reading Jean Toomer, 1923- 1983 -- Song of a racial self : on Sterling A. Brown -- The blackness of Blackness. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. American literature African American authors History and criticism. 40559 African Americans in literature. 40561 Slavery in literature. 78685 Race awareness in literature. Electronic books. local 190 ebrary, Inc. 191 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10142211 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 147199 118451