TY - BOOK AU - Gates Jr,Henry Louis TI - The Signifying Monkey: a Theory of African American Literary Criticism SN - 9780199874514 AV - PS153.N5 G28 1988 U1 - 810/.9/896073 19 PY - 2014/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - African influences KW - African Americans KW - Intellectual life KW - Mythology, African, in literature KW - African Americans in literature KW - Oral tradition KW - United States KW - Folklore KW - Criticism KW - Littérature américaine KW - Influence africaine KW - Noirs américains KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Mythologie africaine dans la littérature KW - Noirs américains dans la littérature KW - Tradition orale KW - États-Unis KW - Critique KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=802354 ER -