TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gates,Henry Louis
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Figures in black: words, signs, and the "racial" self 
AV  - PS153.N5 G27 1987eb
PY  - 1987///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Race awareness in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10142211
ER  -