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035			_a(OCoLC)647575621
050	1	4	_aPS153.N5 _bG27 1987eb
090			_c147199 _d118451
100	1		_aGates, Henry Louis. _920630
245	1	0	_aFigures in black _h[electronic resource] : _bwords, signs, and the "racial" self / _cHenry Louis Gates, Jr.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _cc1987.
300			_axxxii, 311 p. : _bill.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	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.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2009. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xAfrican American authors _xHistory and criticism. _940559
650		0	_aAfrican Americans in literature. _940561
650		0	_aSlavery in literature. _978685
650		0	_aRace awareness in literature.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local _9190
710	2		_aebrary, Inc. _9191
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10142211 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
999			_c147199 _d118451