Scholars in the field of literary theory have defined clearly the role of signifying in African-American literature. This article identifies one aspect of the signifying tradition and its influence on the early...
Henry Louis Gates,Jr.has remained one of the most provocative voices in contemporary African American literary criticism ever since the publication of his The Signifying Monkey,an important text in the study of parody and intertextuality in that tradition.This survey of Gates' critical theory starts...
in which he argues that the Signifying Monkey is the central metaphor, “the trope of tropes,” in African-American literature. The Signifying Monkey is a trickster, an archetypal figure that enjoys stirring up trouble for its own sake or to rattle the...
Signifying on the African American in Suzan-Lori Parks' The America play In ''An Equation for Black People Onstage,'' playwright Suzan-Lori Parks lays out the difficulty of writing plays about black people without falling into a... 松本,美千代 - 《Bulletin of the Faculty of Representational...
monkey in Afro-American literature; Comparison of the book 'The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism,' by Henry Louis Gates Jr... HL Gates 被引量: 3发表: 1988年 Sent From Afric Shore argued that its presiding spirit was a creature from African American folklore, ...
Bae,Gae-hwa - 《Urimalgeul the Korean Language & Literature》 被引量: 0发表: 2006年 Religion, voodoo, conjuring, and ghosts: The rhetoric of the African American cultural language as a theory for literary and film criticism in analyzing To... For over one hundred years, African American ...
Signifying structures: Representations of the house in African-American and Black southern African women's writing. , this study examines the representation of houses in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Fatima Dike's So What's New? LS Kitchiner - Howard Univers...
This study investigated the efficacy of signifying, a form of social discourse in the African American community, as a scaffold for teaching skills in lite... Lee,D C. - 《Journal of Black Psychology》 被引量: 199发表: 1995年 The Signifying Monkey This study investigated the efficacy of sig...
The second volume in a ground-breaking trilogy on Afro-American literature, The Signifying Monkey explores the relationships between the African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to ...
Drawing on Henry Louis Gates's definitions of African American Signifyin(g), my major claim is that a group of Harlem Renaissance female authors included references to Freud and his American counterpart, William James, in their novels. These references to Freud, James, and early modern ...