1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005860030203316

Autore

CAPPUCCIO, Laura

Titolo

Le corti regionali tra stati e diritti : i sistemi di protezione dei diritti fondamentali europeo, americano e africano a confronto / Laura Cappuccino, Andrea Lollini, Palmina Tanzarella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli : Editoriale scientifica, 2012

ISBN

978-88-6342-401-0

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 258 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Studi di attualità giuridiche ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

LOLLINI, Andrea

TANZARELLA, Palmina

Disciplina

342.085

Soggetti

Diritti umani - Tutela - Africa [e] America [e] Europa

Collocazione

XXIX.2.C. 230

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789868703321

Autore

Gates Henry Louis

Titolo

The signifying monkey [[electronic resource] ] : a theory of Afro-American literary criticism / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1988

ISBN

1-283-09780-X

9786613097804

0-19-972275-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages)

Disciplina

810/.9/896073

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p.259-280.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



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