01954nam a2200361Ia 4500001001200000003000800012005001700020006001900037007001500056008004100071010001700112020001500129020001500144040002100159035002100180050002500201090001900226100003100245245010900276260004900385300002600434504005100460505053000511533015201041650008101193650004401274650003401318650003401352655003401386710002201420856013101442999001901573ebr10142211CaPaEBR20260707184137.0m        u        cr cn|||||||||860820s1987    nyua    sb    001 0 eng d  z   86021782   z0195060741  z019503564X  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)64757562114aPS153.N5bG27 1987eb  c152198d1234501 aGates, Henry Louis.92063010aFigures in blackh[electronic resource] :bwords, signs, and the "racial" self /cHenry Louis Gates, Jr.  aNew York :bOxford University Press,cc1987.  axxxii, 311 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aLiterary 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2009.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aAmerican literaturexAfrican American authorsxHistory and criticism.940559 0aAfrican Americans in literature.940561 0aSlavery in literature.978685 0aRace awareness in literature. 7aElectronic books.2local91902 aebrary, Inc.919140uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10142211zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c152198d123450