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African American literary theory since 1966 has responded to both the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ‘70s and the contemporaneous influx of Western literary theory in the academy. Theoretical arguments in this field address questions of the critic's audience and responsibilities, the use of European theory in reading black texts, and representations of gender, race, and sexuality in African American literature. The theoretical responses to these issues reveal a multiplicity of positions from critics as varied as Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara Smith, and Charles I. Nero and a wide range of theoretical approaches too, including structuralism, poststructuralism, and European feminism.