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Title: The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis, Jr. Gates ISBN: 0-19-506075-X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: December, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An Important Work on the African Roots of American Folklore
Comment: Professor Gates' tome on the Signifying Monkey is a thoughtful and fascinating exposition on some of the West African sources of American folklore that are seldom appreciated as a result of the forced expatriations involved in the slave trade. Unfortunately, the book is just slightly dry unless accompanied by a first rate recitation of the Signifying Monkey legend as it is retold in the milieu of the Twentieth Century African American "Toast." I am delighted to report that this can now be experienced by newcomers through the wonderful performance of Rudy Ray Moore, which is available on the CD Greatest Hits. When Dr. Gates' reader is able to reread his Signifying Monkey in light of Mr. Ray Moore's, a whole new world of perception and enjoyment will follow. The synergy of these two works is splendid and neither one is quite so valuable without the other.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rocks!
Comment: Gates is a clear thinker and a subtle stylist in the great tradition of other New Yorker writers like EB White and John McPhee. For a book of Lit crit, this has some neat tricks up its sleeve.
Rating: 5
Summary: Groundbreaking
Comment: I purchased Gates' "Signifying Monkey" and found myself nodding at almost every paragraph. I was nodding in appreciation of the clarity, nodding in recognition of meaning that I had lost that freshman year but eventually found upon reading "The Signifying Monkey", and nodding because literary theory was being applied to African-American literature. Mimesis and Gates finally came together. The chapter on the trope of the "talking book" is my favorite. Bakhtin (did I spell that correctly?) himself a literary theorist became even more palatable as a result of my reading this text. I'm glad that I own this book. I'm constantly referring to it. It's turned into a "pleasure-reading" book for me. It can for you as well. Thanks Professor Gates
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Title: Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature by Houston A., Jr. Baker ISBN: 0226035387 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: January, 1987 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois ISBN: 0486280411 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 20 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the "Racial" Self by Henry Louis, Jr. Gates ISBN: 0195060741 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Orientalism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 039474067X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: "Race", Writing and Difference by Henry Louis Gates ISBN: 0226284352 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: February, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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