TY - BOOK ID - 22605527 TI - The signifying monkey : a theory of African-American literary criticism PY - 1989 SN - 0195034635 019506075X 9786613097804 0199722757 128309780X 9780195060751 9780195034639 9780199722754 PB - New York: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - African Americans in literature KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur KW - Afro-Américains dans la littérature KW - Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur KW - Black Americans in literature KW - Mythologie [Afrikaanse ] in de literatuur KW - Mythologie africaine dans la littérature KW - Mythology [African ] in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - Noirs américains dans la littérature KW - Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur KW - 820 <73> KW - American literature KW - -Criticism KW - -Mythology, African, in literature KW - Oral tradition KW - -African Americans KW - -African Americans in literature KW - -English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - African Americans KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Tradition, Oral KW - Oral communication KW - Folklore KW - Oral history KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Criticism KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literary criticism KW - Literature KW - Rhetoric KW - Aesthetics KW - Style, Literary KW - 820 <73> Amerikaanse literatuur KW - Amerikaanse literatuur KW - African influences KW - Intellectual life KW - African American authors KW - -Bibliography KW - -Catalogs KW - Appraisal KW - Technique KW - Evaluation KW - -Afro-Americans in literature KW - English literature KW - Mythology, African, in literature KW - Littérature américaine KW - Noirs américains KW - Noirs américains dans la littérature KW - Critique KW - Tradition orale KW - Mythologie africaine dans la littérature KW - History and criticism KW - Auteurs noirs américains KW - Histoire et critique KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Influence africaine KW - African American intellectuals KW - African American authors&delete& KW - History and criticism&delete& KW - Theory, etc KW - Theory, etc. KW - United States KW - Ellison, Ralph Waldo KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Hurston, Zora Neale KW - Reed, Ishmael KW - Walker, Alice KW - Wright, Richard KW - Walker, Alice, 1944 KW - -Criticism and interpretation KW - African Americans in literature. KW - Mythology, African, in literature. KW - Intellectual life. KW - African influences. KW - AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE KW - AFRO-AMERICANS KW - AFRO-AMERICANS IN LITERATURE KW - CRITICISM KW - LITERATURE KW - LITERARY CRITICISM, AFRO-AMERICAN KW - INTELLECTUAL LIFE KW - U.S. KW - AFRO-AMERICAN AUTHORS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22605527 AB - 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 the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the Yoruba trickster figure of Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey whose myths help articulate the black tradition's theory of its literature, Gates uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a pow ER -