The signifying monkey : a theory of African-American literary criticism / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; with a new preface by the author ; afterword by W.J.T. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Edition:

Twenty-fifth-anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

Part 1 A Theory of the Tradition

1 A Myth of Origins: Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey 3

2 The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning 49

3 Figures of Signification 97

Part 2 Reading the Tradition

4 The Trope of the Talking Book 139

5 Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text 184

6 On "The Blackness of Blackness": Ishmael Reed and a Critique of the Sign 233

7 Color Me Zora: Alice Walker's (Re)Writing of the Speakerly Text 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index.

ISBN:

9780195136470

0195136470

OCLC:

885024467

Publisher Number:

99945109482