The Signifying Monkey : a Theory of African American Literary Criticism.
Gates Jr., Henry Louis.
The Signifying Monkey : a Theory of African American Literary Criticism. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (353 pages)
Includes index.
Preface to the Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction: Hip-Hop and the Fate of Signifying -- A Myth of Origins: Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey -- The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning -- Figures of Signification -- The Trope of the Talking Book -- Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text -- On "The Blackness of Blackness": Ishmael Reed and a Critique of the Sign -- Color Me Zora: Alice Walker's (Re)Writing of the Speakerly Text -- Afterword to the Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary Edition: Skipping Gates and Breaching Walls.
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as ""eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative"" and in The Washington Post Book World as ""brilliantly original, "" Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s The Signifying Monkey is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature. It elaborates 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, Gates uncovers a unique system for in.
9780199874514 (electronic bk.) 0199874514 (electronic bk.)
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
American literature--African influences.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Mythology, African, in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Oral tradition--United States.
African Americans--Folklore.
Criticism--United States.
Littérature américaine--Influence africaine.
Noirs américains--Vie intellectuelle.
Mythologie africaine dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Tradition orale--États-Unis.
Noirs américains--Folklore.
Critique--États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
African Americans.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
American literature--African influences.
Criticism.
Mythology, African, in literature.
Oral tradition.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore.
PS153.N5 / G28 1988
810/.9/896073
The Signifying Monkey : a Theory of African American Literary Criticism. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (353 pages)
Includes index.
Preface to the Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction: Hip-Hop and the Fate of Signifying -- A Myth of Origins: Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey -- The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning -- Figures of Signification -- The Trope of the Talking Book -- Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text -- On "The Blackness of Blackness": Ishmael Reed and a Critique of the Sign -- Color Me Zora: Alice Walker's (Re)Writing of the Speakerly Text -- Afterword to the Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary Edition: Skipping Gates and Breaching Walls.
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as ""eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative"" and in The Washington Post Book World as ""brilliantly original, "" Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s The Signifying Monkey is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature. It elaborates 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, Gates uncovers a unique system for in.
9780199874514 (electronic bk.) 0199874514 (electronic bk.)
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
American literature--African influences.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Mythology, African, in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Oral tradition--United States.
African Americans--Folklore.
Criticism--United States.
Littérature américaine--Influence africaine.
Noirs américains--Vie intellectuelle.
Mythologie africaine dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Tradition orale--États-Unis.
Noirs américains--Folklore.
Critique--États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
African Americans.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
American literature--African influences.
Criticism.
Mythology, African, in literature.
Oral tradition.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore.
PS153.N5 / G28 1988
810/.9/896073