Smokey Joe Whitfield
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intent on demysti-fying the Lion's self-imposed status as King of the Jungle.
And perhaps also the assumed inferiority of spoken language as a vehicle of power.
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not be-cause he has been severely beaten but because he has been beaten, then Signified upon
To be physically beaten is a set-back, but to have been verbally tricked by the monkey is a much threatening offense, because it has cut through his presumed power and revealed his vulnerabilities. This is the danger signifyin(g) poses, in that it exposes the game of signifying.
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Whereas he writes that the Monkey is a master of this technique, it is even more accurate to write that he is technique, the literariness of language, the ultimate source for black people of the figures of signification.
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