The signifying monkey : a theory of African American literary criticism /

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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 re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edición:Twenty-fifth-anniversary edition.
Temas:
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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