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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Includes index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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American literature -- African influences.
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American literature -- African influences. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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Mythology, African, in literature.
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Mythology, African, in literature. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Oral tradition -- United States.
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Oral tradition. |
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United States. |
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African Americans -- Folklore.
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African Americans -- Folklore. |
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Criticism -- United States.
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Criticism. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Folklore.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gates Jr., Henry Louis. Signifying Monkey. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014 9780195136470 |
| ISBN |
9780199874514 (electronic book) |
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0199874514 (electronic book) |
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