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Review: The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary CriticismUser Review - Elliot - GoodreadsIt's a cliche to refer to books as "important" when you can't honestly call them "good". So The Signifying Monkey is important. This is Henry Louis Gates' most famous academic text, and is still one ... Read full review Review: The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary CriticismUser Review - Ryan - GoodreadsI read a select few essays from this book junior year in college, but recently felt the urge to finish it in its entirety. Wow, stunning clarity, compelling arguments, and a vast array of knowledgeable texts. HLG definitely reshaped a few lenses here. Read full review Related booksCommon terms and phrasesAfrican Afro-American Afro-American literary ain't 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 Herskovits Ibid indeterminacy interpretation Ishmael Reed Janie Janie's Jea's Jes Grew Jody language Legba letters linguistic Lion literal literary tradition Marrant master Mawu meaning metaphor Mitchell-Kernan mode Mumbo Jumbo myth nature Negro novel Ogundipe parody Phillis Wheatley 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 Walker Western words Wright writing York Yoruba Zora Neale Hurston References to this bookFrom other books
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