Henry Louis Gates' 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.
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 A…
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 A…
"While the broad outlines of the rise, fury, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical turn are well known among scholars, in this intellectual history Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform our understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderstood, m…
"While the broad outlines of the rise, fury, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical turn are well known among scholars, in this intellectual history Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform our understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderstood, m…
"While the broad outlines of the rise, fury, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical turn are well known among scholars, in this intellectual history Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform our understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderstood, m…
The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderst…
A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced today, and chart new directi…
