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Title Black literature and literary theory / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Published London ; New York : Methuen, 1984

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Description 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series University paperbacks ; 860
University paperbacks ; 860
Contents Criticism in the jungle / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The critic and society : Barthes, leftocracy and other mythologies / Wole Soyinka -- Repetition as a figure of black culture / James A. Snead -- Structural analysis of the Afro-American trickster tale / Jay Edwards -- Negritude, structuralism, deconstruction / Sunday O. Anozie -- Strictures on structures : the prospects for a structuralist poetics of African fiction / Anthony Appiah -- I yam what I am : the topos of (un)naming in Afro-American literature / Kimberly W. Benston -- Storytelling in early Afro-American fiction : Frederick Douglass's 'The heroic slave' / Robert B. Stepto -- Untroubled voice : call and response in Cane / Barbara E. Bowen -- Metaphor, metonymy and voice in Their eyes were watching God / Barbara Johnson -- To move without moving : creativity and commerce in Ralph Ellison's Trueblood episode / Houston A. Baker,Jr. -- 'Taming all that anger down' : rage and silence in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha / Mary Helen Washington -- Eruptions of funk : historicizing Toni Morrison / Susan Willis -- The blackness of blackness : a critique of the sign and the Signifying monkey / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Analysis English literature Black writers 1900-1985
English literature Negro writers, 1900-1983 - Critical studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
African fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
African fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Authors, Black -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Blacks in literature.
Blacks -- Intellectual life.
Caribbean fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Caribbean fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
Criticism.
Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
West Indian fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
SUBJECT Caribbean Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020279 -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005642
West Indies http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146187 -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005642
Author Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
LC no. 84006636
ISBN 0416372309
0416372406 (paperback)
Other Titles Black literature & literary theory