The Signifying Monkey
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
By Henry Louis GatesExplores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1989"--Title page verso.
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
By Henry Louis GatesGates uses this critical framework to examine several major works of African-American literature--including Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo--revealing how ...
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.... (as in the Signifying Monkey narrative poems) in a well-known Fon narrative entitled “Why Monkey Did Not Become Man. ... Legba, acting without knowledge of Mawu, the creator, transforms two of the earth's four primal beings into ...
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
By Henry Louis Gates Jr.The Signifying Monkey is the first book of literary criticism to trace the roots of contemporary Black literature to Afro-American folklore and to the traditions of African languages.
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
By Henry Louis GatesExplores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature