The Signifying Monkey
Edition: Reissued Edition edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780195136470
Subjects: Literary Criticism & Collections / African-American & Black; American - African American; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: 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 African-American 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 in.