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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism,Used
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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 relationship between the African and AfricanAmerican 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 AfricanAmerican literatureincluding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumborevealing how these works signify on the black tradition and on each other.This superb 25thAnniversary Edition features a new preface by Gates that reflects on the impact of the book 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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