Open AccessPost Colonialist Features of Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs From the Viewpoint of Henry Louis Gates
Author(s) -
Maryam Farahani,
Fazel Asadi Amjad,
Mohsen Hanif,
Tahereh Rezaei
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acta poética
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2448-735X
pISSN - 0185-3082
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.ap.2020.1.868
Subject(s) - epitome , meaning (existential) , philosophy , art , art history , humanities , literature , history , epistemology
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.