12019-03-12T23:57:12+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a1282414plainpublished2019-09-27T23:13:41+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), xxi–xxii.