The Signifying Monkey

Name: The Signifying Monkey
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Poststructuralist analysis of African American literary tradition and signification practice

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

American literary critic and public intellectual who recovered the African American literary tradition, editing major anthologies and running Harvard's Du Bois Institute. The Signifying Monkey is his major theoretical work. His television series on African American genealogy and African history reached massive audiences.

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