Description: Signifying Monkey : A Theory of African American Literary Criticism, Paperback by Gates, Henry Louis; Mitchell, W. J. T., ISBN 0195136470, ISBN-13 9780195136470, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. Exploring the process of 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. This superb 25th-Anniversary Edition features a new preface by Gates that reflects on the impact of th and its relevance for today's society as well as a new afterword written by noted critic W. T. J. Mitchell.
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Book Title: Signifying Monkey : a Theory of African American Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Topic: American / African American, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore & Mythology, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Item Weight: 21.2 Oz
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
