Title The signifying monkey : a theory of Afro-American literary criticism / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS153.N5 G28 1988	DUE 05-10-24 12:00AM	---

Description	xxviii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 259-280.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	A myth of origins: Esu-elegbara and the signifying monkey -- The signifying monkey and the language of signifying: Rhetorical difference and the orders of meaning -- Figures of signification -- Thr 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
Subject	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
	American literature -- African American authors.
	American literature -- African influences.
	American literature -- African influences.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	Mythology, African, in literature.
	Mythology, African, in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Oral tradition -- United States.
	Oral tradition.
	United States.
	African Americans -- Folklore.
	African Americans -- Folklore.
	Criticism -- United States.
	Criticism.
Indexed Term	English literature American black writers, to 1980 - Critical studies
ISBN	0195034635 alkaline paper
	9780195034639 alkaline paper