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The Signifying Monkey

A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

An influential work of literary theory that takes the Yoruba Esu-Elegbara and the African American Signifying Monkey as figures of interpretation. Gates traces the trickster's presence from West African divination to African American literature.

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