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African American Livesby Henry Louis Gates , Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamISBN 019516024X (0-19-516024-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'African American Lives'Book summary:African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed from personal perspectives that in turn inspire, move, entertain, and even infuriate the reader. Subjects include slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, and business people, musicians and dancers, artists and athletes, victims of injustice and the lawyers, journalists, and civil rights leaders who gave them a voice. Their experiences and accomplishments combine to expose the complexity of race as an overriding issue in America's past and present.
African American Lives features frequent cross-references among related entries, over 300 illustrations, and a general index, supplemented by indexes organized by chronology, occupation or area of renown, and winners of particular honors such as the Spingarn Medal, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize. [via]More editions of African American Lives:
The African American National Biographyby Henry Louis Gates , Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamISBN 0195160193 (0-19-516019-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experienceby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195170555 (0-19-517055-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience'Book summary:Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999.
This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created.
More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids , to Sean "Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth. [via]More editions of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience:
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Black Imagination and the Middle Passageby Henry Louis Gates , Maria Diedrich, Carl PedersenISBN 0195126416 (0-19-512641-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Imagination and the Middle Passage'Book summary:This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the American continent. The totality of this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the beginning of the Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories, myths, and arts, these contributions conceptualize the meaning of the Middle Passage for African American and American history, literature, and life. [via]
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Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievementby Alan Steinberg, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Henry Louis GatesISBN 0380813416 (0-380-81341-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement'Book summary:With all the flair of his last-second game-winning sky hooks, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers a well-written and important collection highlighting the lives of America's greatest black heroes. Taking his title cue from John Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Abdul-Jabbar brings to life the exploits of a wide variety of African Americans, including Estevanico, a Moorish slave who discovered Arizona and New Mexico; Cinque, a kidnapped African slave who led a mutiny aboard the slave ship Amistad and later won his freedom in the U.S.; and Harriet Tubman, who brought hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
In a time when the media beams negative images of African Americans around the world, Black Profiles in Courage is indispensable for young adults of other races as well as African-American youth, showing that attributes like courage are not coded by color. For those young blacks who feel distant from America because of racism, books like this are a small but potent antidote against prejudice, reminding them of the important contributions African Americans have made to their country. --Eugene Holley, Jr. [via]
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The Complete Storiesby Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates , Sieglinde LemkeISBN 0061350184 (0-06-135018-4)
Softcover, Perennial
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Educating America: How Ralph W. Tyler Taught America to Teachby Morris Finder, Henry Louis GatesISBN 0275981975 (0-275-98197-5)
Hardcover, Praeger Pub Text
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Educating America: How Ralph W. Tyler Taught America to Teach'Book summary:In his preface to this work, Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes, "If you want insight into what's right and what's wrong about the current debate over standards, you'd be well advised to start with the redoubtable Ralph Tyler." Finder's work is the first to chart the career of the man who developed the nation's report card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Ralph W. Tyler, one of the most influential educators of the 20th century, held strong and closely argued views on issues we debate today tracking, class size, and how the school can cope with the demands of the public.
In his decades long career at some of the nation's most prestigious universities, Ralph W. Tyler changed the course of American education. His work reverberates today in our national discourse on public schooling and in the currency of his groundbreaking testing instrument, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It was Tyler who, during the Great Depression, understood that high schools in particular must prepare their graduates for practical and useful work. Tyler maintained his connection with teachers and public schools by managing to spend several hours a week visiting various classrooms and engaging instructors and administrators. Tyler, a strong proponent of local control of schools, was convinced that nationwide tests and standards were unsuited to the diversity of communities across the country. His own assessment, the NAEP was developed in such a way as to be informative but not necessarily prescriptive. Tyler's commitment to teacher education resulted in the establishment of workshops, a radical idea in its time. The author, a student of Tyler's while teaching school in Chicago, brings the insider's perspective to Tyler's work. In so doing, he presents an informed view of an educator whose strong views and philosophy affect schools in the United States to this day.
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Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the "Racial" Selfby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195060741 (0-19-506074-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the "Racial" Self'Book summary:For over two centuries, critics and the black community have tended to approach African-American literature as simply one more front in the important war against racism, valuing slave narratives and twentieth-century works alike, primarily for their political impact.
In this volume, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a leading scholar in African-American studies, attacks the notion of African-American literature as a kind of social realism. Insisting, instead, that critics focus on the most repressed element of African-American criticism--the language of the text--Gates advocates the use of a close, methodical analysis of language, made possible by modern literary theory. Throughout his study, Gates incorporates the theoretical insights of critics such as Bakhtin, Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, and Bloom, as he examines the modes of representation that define black art and analyzes the unspoken assumptions made in judging this literature since its inception.
Ranging from the eighteenth-century poet, Phillis Wheatley, to modern writers, Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker, Gates seeks to redefine literary criticism itself, moving away from a Eurocentric notion of a hierarchical canon--mostly white, Western, and male--to foster a truly comparative and pluralistic notion of literature. [via]More editions of Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the "Racial" Self:
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Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Ownby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0307382389 (0-307-38238-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own'Book summary:Finding Oprahs Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by historys unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights genetic testing resources that can make it possible to know ones distant tribal roots in Africa.
For Oprah, the path back to the past was emotion-filled and profoundly illuminating, connecting the narrative of her family to the larger American narrative and anchoring her in a way not previously possible. For the reader, Finding Oprahs Roots offers the possibility of an equally rewarding experience. [via]More editions of Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own:
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God's Trombonesby James Weldon Johnson, Henry Louis Gates , Maya AngelouISBN 0143105418 (0-14-310541-8)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's Trombones'Book summary:James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In Gods Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the spirituals. This classic collection includes Listen LordA Prayer, The Creation, The Prodigal Son, Go Down DeathA Funeral Sermon, Noah Built the Ark, The Crucifixion, Let My People Go, and The Judgment Day. [via]
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Identitiesby Henry Louis Gates , Anthony AppiahISBN 0226284387 (0-226-28438-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Identities'Book summary:The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class, and gender in feminist, lesbian, and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies. Identities will help disrupt the cliché-ridden discourse of identity by exploring the formation of identities and problem of subjectivity.[via]
Leading scholars in literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy explore such topics as "Gypsies" in the Western imagination, the mobilization of the West in Chinese television, the lesbian identity and the woman's gaze in fashion photography, and the regulation of black women's bodies in early 20th-century urban areas. This collection of twenty articles brings together the special issue of Critical Inquiry entitled "Identities" (Summer 1992), two other previously published essays, and five previously published critical responses and rejoinders, all of which is interrogated in two new essays by Michael Gorra and Judith Butler.
Contributors include Elizabeth Abel, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Akeel Bilgrami, Daniel Boyarin, Jonathan Boyarin, Judith Butler, Hazel V. Carby, Xiaomei Chen, Diana Fuss, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Avery Gordon, Michael Gorra, Cheryl Herr, Saree S. Makdisi, Walter Benn Michaels, Christopher Newfield, Gananath Obeyesekere, Molly Anne Rothenberg, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sara Suleri, Katie Trumpener, and Joseph Valente.More editions of Identities:
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Identitiesby Henry Louis Gates , Anthony AppiahISBN 0226284395 (0-226-28439-5)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Identities'Book summary:The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class, and gender in feminist, lesbian, and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies. Identities will help disrupt the cliché-ridden discourse of identity by exploring the formation of identities and problem of subjectivity.[via]
Leading scholars in literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy explore such topics as "Gypsies" in the Western imagination, the mobilization of the West in Chinese television, the lesbian identity and the woman's gaze in fashion photography, and the regulation of black women's bodies in early 20th-century urban areas. This collection of twenty articles brings together the special issue of Critical Inquiry entitled "Identities" (Summer 1992), two other previously published essays, and five previously published critical responses and rejoinders, all of which is interrogated in two new essays by Michael Gorra and Judith Butler.
Contributors include Elizabeth Abel, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Akeel Bilgrami, Daniel Boyarin, Jonathan Boyarin, Judith Butler, Hazel V. Carby, Xiaomei Chen, Diana Fuss, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Avery Gordon, Michael Gorra, Cheryl Herr, Saree S. Makdisi, Walter Benn Michaels, Christopher Newfield, Gananath Obeyesekere, Molly Anne Rothenberg, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sara Suleri, Katie Trumpener, and Joseph Valente.More editions of Identities:
In Search of Our Roots: African American Livesby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0307382400 (0-307-38240-0)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
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In the House of Oshugbo: Critical Essays on Wole Soyinkaby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195033493 (0-19-503349-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Jonah's Gourd Vineby Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis GatesISBN 0060916516 (0-06-091651-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonah's Gourd Vine'Book summary:The first novel by the noted black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. Originally published in 1934, it was praised by Carl Sandburg as "a bold and beautiful book, many a page priceless and unforgettable." [via]
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Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's Worldby James P. Comer, Henry Louis GatesISBN 0300109679 (0-300-10967-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World'Book summary:[via]The call-to-arms to “leave no child behind in America has become popularly associated with the Bush administrations education plan—a plan that actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Childrens Defense Fund, which originated the concept. Here, in a bold and engaging new book, Dr. James Comer reclaims this now-famous exhortation as a tool for positive and substantive change.
Far removed from the federal governments focus on standardized testing as the panacea for our educational ills, Dr. Comers argument—drawn from his own experiences as the creator of the School Development Program—urges teachers, policymakers, and parents alike to work toward creating a new kind of school environment.
In so doing, Dr. Comer reignites a crucial debate as he details the evolution and many successes of his School Development Program since its inception thirty-five years ago, and he illustrates how his model for change has proven effective in public schools throughout the country. Most important, he offers proof that students from all backgrounds can learn at a high level, adopt positive behavioral attitudes, and prepare for a fulfilling adult life, if they learn in schools that provide adequate support for their complete development--schools that know that leaving no child behind should be much more than just a convenient political slogan.More editions of Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World:
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Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Warsby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195083504 (0-19-508350-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars'Book summary:Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and Catherine Stimpson on "Firing Line." It is arguably the most hotly debated topic in America today--and justly so. For whether one speaks of tensions between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights, or violent mass protests against Moscow in ethnic republics such as Armenia, or outright war between Serbs and Bosnians in the former Yugoslavia, it is clear that the clash of cultures is a worldwide problem, deeply felt, passionately expressed, always on the verge of violent explosion. Problems of this magnitude inevitably frame the discussion of "multiculturalism" and "cultural diversity" in the American classroom as well.
In Loose Canons, one of America's leading literary and cultural critics, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., offers a broad, illuminating look at this highly contentious issue. Gates agrees that our world is deeply divided by nationalism, racism, and sexism, and argues that the only way to transcend these divisions--to forge a civic culture that respects both differences and similarities--is through education that respects both the diversity and commonalities of human culture. His is a plea for cultural and intercultural understanding. (You can't understand the world, he observes, if you exclude 90 percent of the world's cultural heritage.) We feel his ideas most strongly voiced in the concluding essay in the volume, "Trading on the Margin." Avoiding the stridency of both the Right and the Left, Gates concludes that the society we have made simply won't survive without the values of tolerance, and cultural tolerance comes to nothing without cultural understanding.
Henry Louis Gates is one of the most visible and outspoken figures on the academic scene, the subject of a cover story in The New York Times Sunday Magazine and a major profile in The Boston Globe, and a much sought-after commentator. And as one of America's foremost advocates of African-American Studies (he is head of the department at Harvard), he has reflected upon the varied meanings of multiculturalism throughout his professional career, long before it became a national controversy. What we find in these pages, then, is the fruit of years of reflection on culture, racism, and the "American identity," and a deep commitment to broadening the literary and cultural horizons of all Americans. [via]More editions of Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars:
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Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Lifeby Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates , George Houston BassISBN 0060968850 (0-06-096885-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life'Book summary:Mule Bone is the only collaboration between Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, two stars of the Harlem Renaissance, and it holds an unparalleled place in the annals of African-American theater. Set in Eatonville, Florida--Hurston's hometown and the inspiration for much of her fiction--this energetic and often farcical play centers on Jim and Dave, a two-man song-and-dance team, and Daisy, the woman who comes between them. Overcome by jealousy, Jim hits Dave with a mule bone and hilarity follows chaos as the town splits into two factions: the Methodists, who want to pardon Jim; and the Baptists, who wish to banish him for his crime.
Included in this edition is the fascinating account of the Mule Bone copyright dispute between Hurston and Hughes that ended their friendship and prevented the play from being performed until its debut production at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York City in 1991--sixty years after it was written. Also included is "The Bone of Contention," Hurston's short story on which the play was based; personal and often heated correspondence between the authors; and critical essays that illuminate the play and the dazzling period that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance.
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The Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brownby Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates , George Houston BassISBN 0195148533 (0-19-514853-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Companion to African American Literatureby Trudier Harris, William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris-Lopez, Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195065107 (0-19-506510-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to African American Literature'Book summary:This important sourcebook for information about black writers and their craft is a welcome companion to the recently issued Norton Anthology of African American Literature. More to the point, it shows how much black literature, once relegated to the margins, has become mainstream. Here are brief biographies of more than 400 black writers, entries on some 150 works, and a host of entries on characters from novels, stories, and plays. In addition, there are entries on topics such as Afrocentricity (as well as on topics of more general interest, such as the novel), that make this essential for anyone who cares about black literature. [via]
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The Oxford W. E. B. Du Boisby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195311809 (0-19-531180-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Race, Writing, and Differenceby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0226284352 (0-226-28435-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Race, Writing, and Difference'Book summary:A classic of cultural criticism, "Race," Writing, and Difference provides a broad introduction to the idea of "race" as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory. This collection demonstrates the variety of critical approaches through which one may discuss the complexities of racial "otherness" in various modes of discourse. Now, fifteen years after their first publication, these essays have managed to escape the cliches associated with the race-class-gender trinity of '80s criticism, and remain a provocative overview of the complex interplay between race, writing, and difference.[via]More editions of Race, Writing, and Difference:
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writersby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195157702 (0-19-515770-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Signifying Monkeyby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195136470 (0-19-513647-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticismby Henry Louis GatesISBN 019506075X (0-19-506075-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism'Book summary: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 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. [via]More editions of The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism:
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The Slave's Narrativeby Henry Louis Gates , Charles T. DavisISBN 0195066561 (0-19-506656-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Slave's Narrative'Book summary:These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts. [via]
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Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sourcesby Henry Louis Gates , Charles T. DavisISBN 0313239371 (0-313-23937-1)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Wonders of the African Worldby Henry Louis Gates , Charles T. DavisISBN 0375402357 (0-375-40235-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonders of the African World'Book summary:In the 1920s, Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen asked, "What is Africa to me?" Wonders of the African World, a stunning African travelogue by Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr. (arguably America's most public and prolific black intellectual), takes up that question for a new generation. A beautifully illustrated, literary companion to a PBS documentary series, Wonders traces Gates's 10-month sojourn through the African motherland, from the haunting pyramids of the Egyptian/Nubian empire in Sudan and the ancient Christian heritage of Ethiopia to the lost city of Timbuktu and the fabled University of Sankore. Erudite scholar that he is, Gates uses his trip to investigate the promise and perils of contemporary Africa, considering, among other issues, the unifying potential of the Swahili language and black complicity in the slave trade. Gates also takes aim at the Enlightenment, the subsequent colonialist occupations by European nations, and the worst aspects of Afrocentrism. Ultimately, he reveals an unbreakable, albeit ill-defined, relationship between Afro-Americans and Africans: "I have learned that I am neither Fon nor Beninian, Asante nor Ghanian, Swahili nor Kenyan, Nubian or Sudanese," Gates writes. Though not a member of any one of these great peoples in particular, I am, as a descendant of a West African slave and of ex-slaves, the product of a truly Pan-African new world culture forged out of the crucible of slavery." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Wonders of the African Worldby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0375709487 (0-375-70948-7)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonders of the African World'Book summary:In the 1920s, Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen asked, "What is Africa to me?" Wonders of the African World, a stunning African travelogue by Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr. (arguably America's most public and prolific black intellectual), takes up that question for a new generation. A beautifully illustrated, literary companion to a PBS documentary series, Wonders traces Gates's 10-month sojourn through the African motherland, from the haunting pyramids of the Egyptian/Nubian empire in Sudan and the ancient Christian heritage of Ethiopia to the lost city of Timbuktu and the fabled University of Sankore. Erudite scholar that he is, Gates uses his trip to investigate the promise and perils of contemporary Africa, considering, among other issues, the unifying potential of the Swahili language and black complicity in the slave trade. Gates also takes aim at the Enlightenment, the subsequent colonialist occupations by European nations, and the worst aspects of Afrocentrism. Ultimately, he reveals an unbreakable, albeit ill-defined, relationship between Afro-Americans and Africans: "I have learned that I am neither Fon nor Beninian, Asante nor Ghanian, Swahili nor Kenyan, Nubian or Sudanese," Gates writes. Though not a member of any one of these great peoples in particular, I am, as a descendant of a West African slave and of ex-slaves, the product of a truly Pan-African new world culture forged out of the crucible of slavery." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Works of James Mccune Smith: Black Intellectual And Abolitionistby Henry Louis Gates , James Mccune SmithISBN 0195309618 (0-19-530961-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leaderby Michelle Ronnick, Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195309626 (0-19-530962-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His "Strong, Manly Voice"by William Wells Brown, Paula Garrett, Hollis Robbins, Henry Louis GatesISBN 0195309634 (0-19-530963-4)
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