Post Colonialist Features of Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs From the Viewpoint of Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates has taken Saussure’s term “signifying” and redefined it as a linguistic wordplay which postpones the delivery of meaning and believes in “double-voicedness”, this means to speak both the language of the dominant culture and that of the subordinated one. He also asserts “double-voic...
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| description | Henry Louis Gates has taken Saussure’s term “signifying” and redefined it as a linguistic wordplay which postpones the delivery of meaning and believes in “double-voicedness”, this means to speak both the language of the dominant culture and that of the subordinated one. He also asserts “double-voicedness” as the epitome of “Signifyin (g)”. This paper intends to apply the notions of “Double-voicedness” and “Signifyin (g)” on the manuscript of Les Blancs, written by Lorraine Hansberry, and highlights the anti-colonial aspects of the play. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6da18b58e5b64667ae24a1ce936d11bb2025-08-20T03:09:45ZengUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoActa Poética0185-30822448-735X2019-11-0141111513210.19130/iifl.ap.2020.1.868838Post Colonialist Features of Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs From the Viewpoint of Henry Louis GatesMaryam Jalali Farahani0Fazel Asadi Amjad1Mohsen Hanif2Tahereh Rezaei3University of TehranTaft Branch, Islamic-Azad UniversityKharzami UniversityAllameh Tabataba’i UniversityHenry Louis Gates has taken Saussure’s term “signifying” and redefined it as a linguistic wordplay which postpones the delivery of meaning and believes in “double-voicedness”, this means to speak both the language of the dominant culture and that of the subordinated one. He also asserts “double-voicedness” as the epitome of “Signifyin (g)”. This paper intends to apply the notions of “Double-voicedness” and “Signifyin (g)” on the manuscript of Les Blancs, written by Lorraine Hansberry, and highlights the anti-colonial aspects of the play.https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/acta-poetica/index.php/ap/article/view/868henry louis gatessignifyin (g)lorraine hansberrydouble-voicednessles blancspostcolonialism |
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| title | Post Colonialist Features of Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs From the Viewpoint of Henry Louis Gates |
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