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Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self

Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self

Gates, Henry Louis

Paperback

Literary CriticismBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0195060741
ISBN13: 9780195060744
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 30 1989
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.73 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
For over two centuries, critics and the black community have tended to approach African-American literature as simply one more front in the important war against racism, valuing slave narratives and twentieth-century works alike, primarily for their political impact.
In this volume, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a leading scholar in African-American studies, attacks the notion of African-American literature as a kind of social realism. Insisting, instead, that critics focus on the most repressed element of African-American criticism--the language of the text--Gates advocates the use of a close, methodical analysis of language, made possible by modern literary theory. Throughout his study, Gates incorporates the theoretical insights of critics such as Bakhtin, Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, and Bloom, as he examines the modes of representation that define black art and analyzes the unspoken assumptions made in judging this literature since its inception.

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