The Signifying monkey: a theory of African-American literary criticism

Preface to the Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Introduction: Hip-Hop and the Fate of Signifying

A Myth of Origins: Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey

The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning

Figures of Signification

The Trope of the Talking Book

Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text

On "The Blackness of Blackness": Ishmael Reed and a Critique of the Sign

Color Me Zora: Alice Walker's (Re)Writing of the Speakerly Text

Afterword to the Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary Edition: Skipping Gates and Breaching Walls.