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Gates Henry Louis |
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Titolo |
The signifying monkey [[electronic resource] ] : a theory of Afro-American literary criticism / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c1988 |
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1-283-09780-X |
9786613097804 |
0-19-972275-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
African Americans - Intellectual life |
African Americans in literature |
Criticism - United States |
Oral tradition - United States |
Mythology, African, in literature |
African Americans |
American literature - African influences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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PART ONE: A Theory of the Tradition; 1. A Myth of Origins: Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey; 2. The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning; 3. Figures of Signification; PART TWO: Reading the Tradition; 4. The Trope of the Talking Book; 5. Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text; 6. On "The Blackness of Blackness": Ishmael Reed and a Critique of the Sign; 7. Color Me Zora: Alice Walker's (Re) Writing of the Speakerly Text. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating 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 |
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American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the Yoruba trickster figure of Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey whose myths help articulate the black tradition's theory of its literature, Gates uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a pow |
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