The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary CriticismOxford University Press, 1989 M12 14 - 320 páginas 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. As the author examines the ancient poetry of the Ifa Oracle (found in Nigeria, Benin, Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti), he uncovers the origins of a sacred system of divination, brought to America by black slaves who felt it to be the very "heart-beat" of their souls. Gates demonstrates how a heroic and popular character called the Signifying Monkey emerged from this divination and came to pervade Afro-American culture. In providing masterful readings of literary works by Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, and Ishmael Reed--and in defining how the works of these authors "signify upon" each other--the author delivers a powerful and ground-breaking work of critical theory. Many previously unpublished tales about the Monkey, as well as those already published, are collected in a detailed appendix. |
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... metaphor for formal revision , or intertextuality , within the Afro- American literary tradition . Finally , I ... metaphors of voice from antecedent text to revised text are illus- trative ; other texts could just as easily have been ...
... metaphor for formal revision , or intertextuality , within the Afro- American literary tradition . Finally , I ... metaphors of voice from antecedent text to revised text are illus- trative ; other texts could just as easily have been ...
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... metaphorical meanings analogous to Western philosophy . The tradition . named its own assumptions . " [ In ] no sense , " Herskovits contends , is the metaphysical system of the Fon " to be regarded as a kind of synthesis arrived at by ...
... metaphorical meanings analogous to Western philosophy . The tradition . named its own assumptions . " [ In ] no sense , " Herskovits contends , is the metaphysical system of the Fon " to be regarded as a kind of synthesis arrived at by ...
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... metaphor within this book . Signifyin ( g ) is the figure of the double - voiced , epitomized by Esu's depictions in sculpture as possessing two mouths . There are four sorts of double - voiced textual relations that I wish to define ...
... metaphor within this book . Signifyin ( g ) is the figure of the double - voiced , epitomized by Esu's depictions in sculpture as possessing two mouths . There are four sorts of double - voiced textual relations that I wish to define ...
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... metaphor of the double - voiced that I am tracing from Esu- Elegbara to Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple , I have chosen to expli- cate Reed's novel Mumbo Jumbo to show how black texts " talk " to other black texts . Since Mumbo ...
... metaphor of the double - voiced that I am tracing from Esu- Elegbara to Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple , I have chosen to expli- cate Reed's novel Mumbo Jumbo to show how black texts " talk " to other black texts . Since Mumbo ...
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... metaphor for the literary critic , and Esu - ' tufunaalo is the study of methodological princi- ples of interpretation itself , or what the literary critic does . Esu - ' tufunaalo is the secular analogue of Ifa divination , the richly ...
... metaphor for the literary critic , and Esu - ' tufunaalo is the study of methodological princi- ples of interpretation itself , or what the literary critic does . Esu - ' tufunaalo is the secular analogue of Ifa divination , the richly ...
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism Henry Louis Gates Vista previa limitada - 1989 |
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism Henry Louis Gates, Jr Vista previa limitada - 2014 |
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Vista previa limitada - 2014 |
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African Afro-American Afro-American literary Anglo-African babalawo black texts black tradition black vernacular black writers called Celie Celie's chain chapter Color Purple criticism critique Cugoano culture defines dialect divination double-voiced Elegbara Equiano essay Esu's Eyes Were Watching fiction figure formal free indirect discourse function Gronniosaw Ibid interpretation Ishmael Reed Janie Janie's Jea's Jes Grew jigue Jody language Legba letters linguistic Lion literal literary tradition Marrant master Mawu meaning metaphor Mitchell-Kernan mode Mumbo Jumbo myth Negro novel parody play poems poetry presence Ralph Ellison reader Reed Reed's relation relationship repetition representation represents revision rhetorical strategy ritual Shug Signifyin g Signifying Monkey slave narratives slavery speak speakerly speech standard English story structure Talking Book Tea Cake tells text's theory things tion tree trickster trope voice W. E. B. Du Bois Walker Western words Wright writing York Yoruba Zora Neale Hurston