Gatesian
Gatesian adjective: of or pertaining to Henry Louis Gates (born 1950), American critic and scholar, or his theories or writings.
Adjective
Gatesian (comparative more Gatesian, superlative most Gatesian)
- Of or pertaining to Henry Louis Gates (born 1950), American critic and scholar, or his theories or writings.
- The central critique of the applicability of Gatesian revisionism for a narrative of African American women's literary tradition was framed by Hortense Spillers in 1985...1999, Katherine Clay Bassard, Spiritual interrogations
- In a Gatesian sense, Naylor signifies on Cane in her work...2001, Shirley A Stave, Gloria Naylor: strategy and technique, magic and myth
- Of or pertaining to Bill Gates (born 1955), American businessman and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.
- ...paint a grandiose picture about what Microsoft could do, the Gatesian vision.1992, James Wallace, Jim Erickson, Hard drive: Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft empire
- Friends and vague listeners may have heard me urging a "Gatesian" computerized approach...2008, James A Duke, Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin, Andrea R Ottesen, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America
Examples of Gatesian in a sentence
- Further, Walker is signifying in a Gatesian way on a particularly racialized history...2004, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Seeing the unspeakable: the art of Kara Walker:
- The projector and the computer bump into each other in Gatesian cyberspace, and we're off.2008, David P Reiter, Primary Instinct:
Forms of Gatesian
| comparative | more Gatesian |
|---|---|
| superlative | most Gatesian |
Origin of Gatesian
From Gates + -ian.
Questions about Gatesian
- What does Gatesian mean?
- Gatesian means of or pertaining to Henry Louis Gates (born 1950), American critic and scholar, or his theories or writings.
- How do you use Gatesian in a sentence?
- Further, Walker is signifying in a Gatesian way on a particularly racialized history...
- What part of speech is Gatesian?
- Gatesian is an adjective.
Words near Gatesian in the dictionary
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