{"product_id":"the-signifying-monkey-a-theory-of-african-american-literary-criticism-9780195136470","title":"The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism","description":"Hailed in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e as eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative and in \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e as brilliantly original, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s\u003cem\u003e The Signifying Monkey\u003c\/em\u003e is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the relationship between the African and\u003cbr\u003eAfrican-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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, Gates uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. Exploring the process of signification in black American life\u003cbr\u003eand literature by analyzing the transmission and revision of various signifying figures, Gates provides an extended analysis of what he calls the Talking Book, a central trope in early slave narratives that virtually defines the tradition of black American letters. Gates uses this critical\u003cbr\u003eframework to examine several major works of African-American literature--including Zora Neale Hurston's \u003cem\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/em\u003e, Ralph Ellison's \u003cem\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/em\u003e, and Ishmael Reed's \u003cem\u003eMumbo Jumbo\u003c\/em\u003e--revealing how these works signify on the black tradition and on each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis superb 25th-Anniversary Edition features a new preface by Gates that reflects on the impact of the book and its relevance for today's society as well as a new afterword written by noted critic W. T. J. Mitchell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Louis Gates Jr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195136470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr. \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online\u003cbr\u003eresource in the field of African American and Africana Studies, and is co-editor, with K. Anthony Appiah, of \u003cem\u003eAfricana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience\u003c\/em\u003e. With Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, he is the co-editor of the eight-volume biographical encyclopedia \u003cem\u003eAfrican American\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Biography\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition, he is the author of \u003cem\u003eFigures in Black: Words, Signs and the 'Racial' Self, Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars, Colored People: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man\u003c\/em\u003e (co-authored with Cornell West). His four-hour documentary, \u003cem\u003eBlack in Latin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerica\u003c\/em\u003e, aired on PBS in April and May.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39821998686323,"sku":"9780195136470","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_41861065-c9e8-46ec-8941-a1b1f12878de.jpg?v=1644519035","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-signifying-monkey-a-theory-of-african-american-literary-criticism-9780195136470","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}