Before revision: Critical reception In their article "Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Current Debate in African-American Literary Criticism, An Introduction", Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk explore the criticism that the term signifyin(g) has faced since its introduction in Gates text, The Signifying Monkey: a Theory of African-American Literary Criticism.
After revision: 'Critical reception In their article "Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Current Debate in African-American Literary Criticism, An Introduction", Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk explore the criticism that the term signifyin(g) has faced since its introduction in Gates text, The Signifying Monkey: a Theory of African-American Literary Criticism.