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The Signifying Monkey - A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (Paperback, Reissued Edition)
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The Signifying Monkey - A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (Paperback, Reissued Edition)
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores
the relationship between the African and African-American
vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new
critical approach located within this tradition that allows the
black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and
myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and
particularly the Yoruba trickster figure of Esu-Elegbara and the
Signifying Monkey whose myths help articulate the black tradition's
theory of its literature, Gates uncovers a unique system of
interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black
slaves brought with them to the New World. His critical approach
relies heavily on the Signifying Monkey--perhaps the most popular
figure in African-American folklore--and signification and
Signifyin(g). Exploring signification in black American life and
literature by analyzing the transmission and revision of various
signifying figures, Gates provides an extended analysis of what he
calls the "Talking Book," a central trope in early slave narratives
that virtually defines the tradition of black American letters.
Gates uses this critical framework to examine several major works
of African-American literature--including Zora Neale Hurston's
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and
Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo--revealing how these works signify on
the black tradition and on each other. The second volume in an
enterprising trilogy on African-American literature, The Signifying
Monkey--which expands the arguments of Figures in Black--makes an
important contribution to literary theory, African-American
literature, folklore, and literary history.
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