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Black Is the Color of the Cosmos: Essays on Afro-American Literature

By Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates

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9780824093150 | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1981, cover price $79.00

Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North : Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There

Portrays the experiences of Frado, the Black indentured servant of a Massachusetts family during the nineteenth century (view table of contents)

By Henry Louis Gates and Harriet E. Wilson

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9780394715582, titled "Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North : Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There" | Vintage Books, April 1, 1983, cover price $12.00 | also contains Timbuktu | About this edition: Portrays the experiences of Frado, the Black indentured servant of a Massachusetts family during the nineteenth century

The Slave's Narrative

These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts.

By Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates

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9780195032765 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 16, 1985, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history.

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9780195066562 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 21, 1991), cover price $56.00

Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

By Henry Louis Gates, James Gibbs, Ketu H. Katrak and Bernard S. Katz (editor)

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9780313239373 | Greenwood Pub Group, January 1, 1986, cover price $96.00

"Race", Writing and Difference

Product Description: A classic of cultural criticism, "Race," Writing, and Difference provides a broad introduction to the idea of "race" as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory. This collection demonstrates the variety of critical approaches through which one may discuss the complexities of racial "otherness" in various modes of discourse...read more

By Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780226284354 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 8, 1992, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: A classic of cultural criticism, "Race," Writing, and Difference provides a broad introduction to the idea of "race" as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory.

Figures in Black: Words, Signs, And the "Racial" Self

Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers

By Henry Louis Gates

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9780195035643 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 16, 1987, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers

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9780195060744, titled "Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the "Racial" Self" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 30, 1989), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers

The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

Product Description: When the first volumes of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers first appeared in 1988, critics and scholars applauded the publishing venture as historic. Oxford University Press, in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, was credited with rescuing the voice of an entire segment of the black tradition...read more

By Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780195157703 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $995.00 | About this edition: When the first volumes of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers first appeared in 1988, critics and scholars applauded the publishing venture as historic.

9780195052671 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 14, 1988, cover price $700.00 | About this edition: The writings of Afro-American women in the 19th century have remained buried in obscurity, accessible only in research libraries or in expensive and hard-to-find reprints.

The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-american Literary Criticism

Explores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature (view table of contents)

By Henry Louis Gates

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9780195034639 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 11, 1988, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Explores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature

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9780195060751 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 14, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Explores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature

Black Is the Color of the Cosmos: Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture, 1942-1981

By Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780882581668 | Reprint edition (Howard Univ Pr, December 1, 1989), cover price $33.95

Black Literature and Literary Theory

Product Description: ""Black Literature and Literary Theory" is of the first importance, not only for scholars of black literature, but also for literary critics and theorists in the traditional fields of Western literature."--W. Mitchell, University of Chicago

By Sunday Ogbonna Anozie (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780415903349 | Reprint edition (Routledge, January 1, 1990), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: ""Black Literature and Literary Theory" is of the first importance, not only for scholars of black literature, but also for literary critics and theorists in the traditional fields of Western literature.

Three Classic African American Novels: Clotel; Or the President's Daughter, Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted, the Marrow of Tradition

By William Wells Brown (editor), Charles Waddell Chesnutt (editor), Henry Louis Gates (editor) and Frances E. W. Harper (editor)

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9780679727422 | Vintage Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $21.00

Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology

Essays examine the Black feminist viewpoint in literature

By Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780452010451 | Plume, October 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Essays examine the Black feminist viewpoint in literature

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life

The complete script of the three-act play is accompanied by the Hurston short story, and notes on Lincoln Center Theater's adaptation

By George Houston Bass, Henry Louis Gates, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

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9780060968854 | Reprint edition (Perennial, March 1, 1991), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The complete script of the three-act play is accompanied by the Hurston short story, and notes on Lincoln Center Theater's adaptation

Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith

By Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780195061970 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 18, 1991, cover price $83.00

Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autogiobraphy in the Twentieth Century

A collection of memoirs written by Black scholars, politicians, creative writers, and journalists offers insight to the African-American experience in twentieth-century American society

By Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780679735205 | Pantheon Books, June 1, 1991, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of memoirs written by Black scholars, politicians, creative writers, and journalists offers insight to the African-American experience in twentieth-century American society

Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars

Avoiding the excesses of the Right and the Left, one of the nation's leading academics tackles the 'multiculturalism' issue, pleading for cultural tolerance and, above all, cultural education. 12,000 first printing.

By Henry Louis Gates

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9780195075199 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 30, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Avoiding the excesses of the Right and the Left, one of the nation's leading academics tackles the 'multiculturalism' issue, pleading for cultural tolerance and, above all, cultural education.

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9780195083507 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 20, 1993), cover price $45.00

Different Voices: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Framework for Change in the American Art Museum

By Carol Becker, James Clifford and Henry Louis Gates (contributor)

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9781880974001 | Americans for the Arts, August 1, 1992, cover price $15.00

Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

Reviews and essays offer critical interpretations of the works of Richard Wright and discuss how he made his readers aware of the horrors of racism in America

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781567430271 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Reviews and essays offer critical interpretations of the works of Richard Wright and discuss how he made his readers aware of the horrors of racism in America

Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

Reviews and essays offer critical examinations of Alice Walker's works and the manner in which they address the struggles of Black women

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781567430134 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reviews and essays offer critical examinations of Alice Walker's works and the manner in which they address the struggles of Black women

Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

Product Description: In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student of Afro-American studies at Yale, Naylor has analyzed the works of her male and female antecedents in a manner that was impossible before the late seventies...read more

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates

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9781567430172 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor.

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9781567430301 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $14.95

Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

Reviews, essays, and interviews offer critical interpretations of the works of Toni Morrison

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781567430127 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reviews, essays, and interviews offer critical interpretations of the works of Toni Morrison

Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

A collection of reviews and essays discusses each of the author's works and reveals how understanding of her writing has developed

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781567430158 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of reviews and essays discusses each of the author's works and reveals how understanding of her writing has developed

Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

A collection of reviews and essays discusses the author's poetry and other works, revealing how reviewers missed the complexity of his writing, and how understanding of his work has developed

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781567430165 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of reviews and essays discusses the author's poetry and other works, revealing how reviewers missed the complexity of his writing, and how understanding of his work has developed

Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave/My Bondage and My Freedom/Life and Times of Fr

A new one-volume edition of an American classic offers the complete memoirs of the eloquent escaped slave, who in the nineteenth century shaped the abolitionist movement and became the most influential African-American of his era.

By Frederick Douglass and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780940450790 | Library of America, February 1, 1994, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A new one-volume edition of an American classic offers the complete memoirs of the eloquent escaped slave, who in the nineteenth century shaped the abolitionist movement and became the most influential African-American of his era.

Colored People: A Memoir

The celebrated African-American Harvard scholar offers a portrait of growing up in a West Virginia hill town, presenting a study of his family, his childhood icons, and the social institutions and mores of the time. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

By Henry Louis Gates

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9780679421795 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The celebrated Black Harvard scholar offers a portrait of growing up in a West Virginia hill town, presenting a study of his family, his childhood icons, and the social institutions and mores of the time

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9780679739197 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1995), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The celebrated African-American Harvard scholar offers a portrait of growing up in a West Virginia hill town, presenting a study of his family, his childhood icons, and the social institutions and mores of the time.

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