Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2012.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Pt.I Genealogies: Family matters (The New Yorker) — My Yiddishe mama (The Wall Street Journal) — Native sons of liberty (The New York Times Week in Review) — In the kitchen (Colored People) — Walk the last mile (Colored People) — The last mill picnic (Colored People) — In our lifetime (The Root). — Pt.II Excavation: Introduction, Our nig or, sketches from the life of a free black by Harriet E. Wilson — Introduction, The bondwoman’s narrative : a novel by Hannah Crafts — In her own write, series introduction, The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers — Introduction, African American lives, with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham — Introduction to the first edition, Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience, second edition, with Kwame Anthony Appiah — Prefatory notes on the African slave trade, In search of our roots. — Pt.III Canons: The master’s pieces : on canon formation and the African-American tradition, Loose canons — Introduction, Tell me, sir,…What is ‘black’ literature?, Loose canons — Preface to the second edition, The Norton anthology of African American literature, with Nellie Y. McKay — Canon confidential : a Sam Slade caper (The New York Times Book Review). — Pt.IV Race, writing, and reading: Being, the will, and the semantics of death : Wole Soyinka’s Death and the king’s horseman — Introduction, Writing race and the difference it makes (Critical Inquiry) — Preface, The image of the black in Western art, with David Bindman — The signifying monkey and the language of signifyin(g): rhetorical difference and the orders of meaning (The signifying monkey) — Reading Race, writing, and difference (PMLA) — Jean Toomer’s conflicted racial identity, with Rudolph P. Byrd (The Chronicle of Higher Eduation). — Pt.V Reading people: Both sides now : W.E.B. Du Bois (The New York Times) — The prince who refused the kingdom : John Hope Franklin (Du Bois Review) — King of cats : Albert Murray (The New Yorker) — White like me : Anatole
• A scholarly primer by the intellectual and author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. collects three decades of his writings in a range of fields, in a volume that also offers insight into his achievements as a historian, theorist, and cultural critic.

Subjects:

• American literature — African American authors — History and criticism.
• African Americans in literature.
• Literature and society — United States.

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