![]() To accurately define the act of “signifying” Gates begins his book by taking the reader of a historical journey begins in the heart of African culture. Consequently, black texts resemble other, Western texts ( Gates xxii). Black writer, like critics of black literature, learn to write by reading literature, especially the canonical texts of the Western tradition. We learn to read the text at hand, And texts have a curious habit of generating other texts that resemble themselves. The methods devised to read these texts are culture- specific and temporal-specific, and they are text-specific as well. The preface states “It is probably true that critics of African and Afro –American literature essentially as a set of Western texts. It seems that many critics like Gates following this ideology take ideas from deconstruction, post structuralism, and postmodernism, as well as Marxism. Therefore, their likeness in definition negates Gates into offering a solid deconstructionist account. ![]() ![]() ![]() This can get confusing, because it seems the words are homonyms. Perhaps it is the subject of the signifier may be the same, but what is actually signified by it differs with each use. ![]() A deconstructionist One may ask Is it an accident that the black English word signifying is also a common term in the vocabulary of deconstruction? ![]()
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