The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism - Brossura

Gates Jr, Henry Louis

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ISBN 10: 019506075X ISBN 13: 9780195060751

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1989

Riassunto

The second volume in a ground-breaking trilogy on Afro-American literature, The Signifying Monkey explores the relationships between the African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Looking at the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture - and particularly at 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 of interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition, that came with black slaves to the New World.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author ofFigures in Black, Loose Canons, and Colored People; general editor ofThe Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; and general editor ofThe W.E.B. Du Bois Institute series.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 019506075X
• ISBN 13: 9780195060751
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 318
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile