The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.


Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self (ed. Oxford University Press on Demand, 1989) - ISBN: 9780195060744

Henry Louis Gates Quotes

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the...

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the...

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the...

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the...