标题: 小亨利-路易斯-盖茨 文学评论家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-3-2 00:31 标题: 小亨利-路易斯-盖茨 文学评论家 Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Literary Critic | Class of June 1981
Title
Literary Critic
Location
New Haven, Connecticut
Age
31 at time of award
Area of Focus
Literary History and Criticism
Published June 1, 1981
ABOUT HENRY'S WORK
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a literary critic who focuses on the literary history and theory of the African and African-American traditions.
He investigates language use in the black vernacular and formal traditions, interpretive systems of black cultures in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, and the relations of these systems to contemporary literary theory. While he draws principally upon Afro-American materials, Gates also writes about Yoruba culture in Africa and Latin America. His books include Black Literature and Literary Theory (1984), Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self (1987), The Signifying Monkey (1989), Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992), Colored People: A Memoir (1994), The Future of the Race (1996), Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997), and The Wonders of the African World (1999). He is also the co-editor of Encarta Africana (CD-ROM, 1999), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) and The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century (2000).
BIOGRAPHY
Gates is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities and the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Harvard University.
Gates received a B.A. (1973) from Yale University, and an M.A. (1974) and a Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Cambridge.
他研究黑人白话和正式传统中的语言使用，非洲、加勒比和美国黑人文化的解释系统，以及这些系统与当代文学理论的关系。 虽然他主要借鉴了非洲-美国的材料，但盖茨也写了关于非洲和拉丁美洲的约鲁巴文化。 他的著作包括《黑人文学和文学理论》（1984年）、《黑色的数字》。词语、符号和种族自我》（1987年）、《符号化的猴子》（1989年）、《松散的教规》。文化战争笔记》（1992年），《有色人种》（1994年）。A Memoir (1994), The Future of the Race (1996), Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997), and The Wonders of the African World (1999). 他也是《Encarta Africana》（CD-ROM，1999年）、《Africa》的共同编辑。非洲和非裔美国人经验百科全书》（1999年）和《非裔美国人世纪：美国黑人如何塑造我们的世纪》（2000年）的共同编辑。