Question
This book draws a thematic throughline between Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1988 book subtitled “A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism.” This book analogizes its title figure, who appears in many toasts, to African-American use of intertextuality.
ANSWER: The Signifying Monkey
[10m] The Signifying Monkey is by this scholar and literary critic, who defended 2 Live Crew in a 1992 obscenity case and co-edited the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature with Nellie McKay.
ANSWER: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
[10e] Gates’ theories of signifying have been used to analyze this culture’s common practice of musical sampling. Gates’ and McKay’s Norton Anthology represents this culture through lyrics by the rapper Chuck D.
ANSWER: hip hop
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