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  • Literary theory and the Black tradition
  • Phillis Wheatley and the Nature of the Negro
  • Binary oppositions in chapter one of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. Written by himself
  • Frederick Douglass and the language of the self
  • Parallel discursive universes : fictions of the self in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig
  • Dis and dat : dialect and the descent
  • The same difference : reading Jean Toomer, 1923- 1983
  • Song of a racial self : on Sterling A. Brown
  • The blackness of Blackness.