Acknowledgements; Criticism in the Jungle Henry Louis Gates, Jr; Part 1: Theory on Structuralism and Post-Structuralism; 1. The Critic and Society: Barthes, Leftocracy and Other Mythologies Wole Soyinka 2. Repetition as a Figure of Black Culture James A. Snead 3. Structural Analysis of the Afro-American Trickster Tale Jay Edwards 4. Negritude, Structuralism, Deconstruction Sunday O. Anozie 5. Strictures on Structures: The Prospects for a Structuralist Poetics of African Fiction Anthony Appiah 6. I Yam Who I Am: The Topos of (Un)naming in Afro-American Literature Kimberly W. Benston; Part 2: Practice; 7. Storytelling in Early Afro-American Fiction: Frederick Douglass’s ‘The Heroic Slave’ Robert B. Stepto 8. Untroubled Voice: Call and Response in ‘Cane’ Barbara E. Bowen 9. Metaphor, Metonymy and Voice in ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ Barbara Johnson 10. To Move Without Moving: Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison’s Trueblood Episode Houston A. Baker, Jr 11. ‘Taming All That Anger Down’: Range and Silence in Gwendolyn Brooks’s ‘Maud Martha’ Mary Helen Washington 12. Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison Susan Willis 13. The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey Henry Louis Gates, Jr; Index
Biography
Henry Louis Gates Jr
