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Gates's own literary history is
taken from black rhetorical
strategy called signifying) and
drawn entirely from the
"Signifyin Monkey" tales. The
figure of the Signifyin
Monkey is...
Signifyin(g) is a uniquely black rhetorical concept whereby a
second statement or figure repeats, or tropes, or reverses the
first. Its use as a figure for intertextuality allows critics to
understand literary revision without resource to European
themes and concepts.
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