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<p>"The originality, brilliance, and scope of the work is remarkable.... Gates will instruct, delight, and stimulate a broad range of readers, both those who are already well versed in Afro-American literature, and those who, after reading this book, will eagerly begin to be."—Barbara E. Johnson, <b>Harvard University.</b> "A critical enterprise of the first importance.... Gates promises to lead and to show the way in boldness of conception, in vigor of execution, and in vitality and pertinence of expression."—James Olney, <b>Louisiana State University.</b> Recently awarded Honorable Mention from the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee of the American Studies Association, <b>Figures in Black</b> takes a provocative new look at how we analyze and define black literature. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., attacks the notion that the dominant mode of Afro-American literature is, or should be, a kind of social realism, evaluated primarily as a reflection of the "Black Experience." Instead, Gates insists that critics turn to the language of the text and bring to their work the close, methodical analysis of language made possible by modern literary theory. But his goal in this volume is

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Author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280524257

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Political Science, History