Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self
- ISBN-10
- 0195060741
- ISBN-13
- 9780195060744
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 311
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Henry Louis Gates
Description
Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers
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- 1987-07-16
- 348 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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- 1987
- 311 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press
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