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 "doublevoicedness" 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]