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The Signifying Monkey : A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
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The Signifying Monkey : A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism Paperback - 1989

by Gates, Henry Louis, Jr

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  • Title The Signifying Monkey : A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
  • Author Gates, Henry Louis, Jr
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date December 14, 1989
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4302630-6
  • ISBN 9780195060751 / 019506075X
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.13 x 9.25 x 0.65 in (15.57 x 23.50 x 1.65 cm)
  • Reading level 1460
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, African Americans in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87014005
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.989

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The black Africans who survived the dreaded "Middle Passage" from the west coast of Africa to the New World did not sail alone.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of Figures in Black, Loose Canons, and Colored People; general editor of The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; and general editor of The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute series.