Post Colonialist Features of Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs From the Viewpoint of Henry Louis Gates

• Autores: Maryam Jalali Farahani, Fazel Asadi Amjad, Mohsen Hanif, Tahereh Rezaei
• Localización: Acta Poética, ISSN 2448-735X, ISSN-e 0185-3082, Vol. 41, Nº. 1, 2020, págs. 115-132
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.