The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

290 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

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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 th...

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