| Description |
328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
University paperbacks
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| Note |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Criticism in the jungle / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Theory : on structuralism and post-structuralism. 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 -- Practice. 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. |
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(cont.) 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. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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African fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Caribbean fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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West Indian fiction (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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African Americans in literature.
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Black people in literature.
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| Added Author |
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
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Anozie, Sunday O. (Sunday Ogbonna), 1942-2001.
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| ISBN |
0415903343 paperback |
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0416372309 |
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