The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
黒人文学の理論を口承伝統から読み直す批評書。
作品情報
アフリカ系文学理論の古典。
ヘンリー・ルイス・ゲイツ・ジュニアは、アフリカ系の神話や語りから文学理論を組み立てる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
- 発売日
- 2014-07-23
- ページ数
- 318ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 2.54 x 23.37 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780195136470
- ISBN-10
- 0195136470
- 価格
- 3575 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Arts & Photography/Music/Musical Genres/Rap
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 of interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. His critical approach relies heavily on the Signifying Monkey--perhaps the most popular figure in African-American folklore--and signification and Signifyin(g). Exploring signification in black American life and literature by analyzing the transmission and revision of various signifying figures, Gates provides an extended analysis of what he calls the 'Talking Book', a central trope in early slave narratives that virtually defines the tradition of black American letters. Gates uses this critical framework to examine several major works of African-American literature--including Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo--revealing how these works signify on the black tradition and on each other. The second volume in an enterprising trilogy on African-American literature, The Signifying Monkey--which expands the arguments of Figures in Black--makes an important contribution to literary theory, African-American literature, folklore, and literary history.
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Havard University; Editor-in-Chief, Oxford American Studies Center. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 'Skip' is one of the most powerful academic voices in America. In 1997 Gates was voted one of Time Magazine's '25 Most influential Americans'. He is most recognised for his extensive research of African American history and literature, and for developing and expanding the African American Studies program at Harvard University. The first black to have received a Ph.D. from Cambridge, Gates is the author of many books, articles, essays and reviews, and has received numerous awards and honorary degrees. Gates who has displayed an endless dedication to bringing African- American culture into the public, has co-authored, co-edited and produced some of the most comprehensive African-American reference materials in the country.
レビュー
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シグニファイしつづけるサルという黒人民話
「シグニファイ」とは黒人の言語行動のうち「決して要点を言わずあてこすりを述べ続ける」ことを意味する。黒人の民話の中に出てくるサルはまさにそれをやる。著者ヘンリー・ルイス・ゲーツ・ジュニアはアメリカ黒人として初めてケンブリッジ大学博士号を授与されたハーバード大学アフロアメリカンスタディーズの教授。２００９年にケンブリッジ（マサチューセッツ州の町）の自宅に入ろうとしているところを白人住宅地をうろつく怪しい黒人として通報され逮捕された。当時のオバマ大統領が逮捕した白人警官とゲーツをともにホワイトアハウスに招いて和解させたのは記憶に新しい。白人の多くが黒人を犯罪者と結びつけて考えるという事実がよく表れている。みなりyの良い黒人が手を挙げてもタクシーは止まらない。白人女性の多くは黒人男性と二人きりのエレベーターには乗らない。。なぜ黒人男性は疎まれるのか。いつまでたっても白人と黒人の緊張に満ちた関係は変わらない。ベストセラーになったこの本は黒人民話の中の「シグニファイ」するサルを学際的アプローチで分析し、伝統の形成過程を探るもの。ペーパーバックで２８３ページと分厚いが翻訳されてないため一読はお勧めしない。ただでさえ難解な本である。
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Bien
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O tema do livro me interessa bastante. O autor é um grande nome na teoria crítica literária. Porém não pude ler após minha compra em formato e-book porque o livro é incompatível com meu dispositivo Kindle. Investimento perdido. :(
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Signifying Monkey describes important themes throughout black literature. These themes are all a result of the practice of signifying within black culture. This book also shows how signifying came from Africa through the middle passage of slavery into the literary writing of the black community. So it is an important text to understand more clearly the elements, themes, and major types in black literature.
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Produto ofertado para leitura em kindle porém não é compatível com o kindle. Não é possível ler no computador, través do site, somente em celular. Que tipo de leitura é feita para celular? Péssima loja para se comprar livros. Me arrependi .... Mas como tenho trabalho para fazer não posso esperar o livro físico. Nunca recomendaria a loja para ninguém. A loja não ofereceu nenhuma compensação pelo transtorno, nem retirou o livro do hall de itens a venda e, nem mesmo, alterou o anúncio para que futuros compradores possam estar cientes daquilo que estão comprando. PÉSSIMO.....
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Dr. Gates sets the scene of his intellectual exploration and tells a rollicking tale of discovery in the first section. I think I will need to acquire Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo to really appreciate the second part.