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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 for interpretation and a pow Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Overall, I'd say it's a good survey of some very interesting literature, interspersed with some fascinatingly incisive insights here and there but which taken all in all isn't cohering for me as a whole the way the author intended. As a piece of literary criticism, great, but as the foundation of an entirely new theory/framework of criticism... enh, I'm not sold.
It's possible that I'm not fully appreciating the import of the book because I'm reading it in 2012 without any real knowledge of what Black Studies looked like in the late 1980s. Maybe the idea of taking black vernacular oral tradition seriously enough to apply it to lit criticism was just so absolutely revolutionary at the time that thinking to do it at all constituted a landmark achievement? ( )