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The signifying monkey

A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

1988 290 pages eng

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as ""eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative"" and in The Washington Post Book World as ""brilliantly original,"" Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s The Signifying Monkey is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the relationship between the African and African-Ame…

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