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

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195060741
• ISBN13: 9780195060744
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.4"