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Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the "Racial" Self
Figures in Black Words Signs and the Racial Self Author:Henry Louis Gates 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.^LIn this volume, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a leading scholar in African-American ... more »studies, attacks the notion of African-American literature as a kind of social realism. Insisting, instead, that critics focus on the most repr« less