Figures In Black: Words, Signs, And The `Racial' Self

In this insightful volume, Gates focuses critcal attention on the most repressed element of African-American criticism - the language of the text. Incorporating the theoretical insights of critics such as Bakhtin, Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, and Bloom, he explores the work of a wide range of African-American writers from Phillis Wheatley to Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker.

• | By (Author): Henry Louis, Jr. (Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies, and W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies, and W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University) Gates
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• | Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• | Publication Date: Oct 11, 1990
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0195060741
• | ISBN-13: 9780195060744