小亨利.路易斯.盖茨是最著名的当代美国黑人文学批评理论家之一,其专著《表意的猴子》是研究黑人文学的戏仿与互文不可或缺的文本。本文结合黑人作家伊什梅尔.里德的代表作《芒博琼博》,从“表意”的语言、“表意”的文本以及黑人文本间的“表意”与互文关系等对盖茨的理论进行梳理。本文认为,盖茨理论构建的偏颇之处,不在于其批评范式或政治性,而在于其对文本不确定性的过分强调。 Small Henry Louis Gates is one of the most famous modern American black literary criticism theorists, the monograph “ideological monkey” is an indispensable text to study the imitation and intertextuality of black literature. Based on the language of “Expression”, the text of “Expression” and the “Expression” between black texts and the intertextual relationship Such as Gates’s theory to sort out. This article argues that the biasedness of Gates’s theory construction lies not in its criticism paradigm or politics but in its overemphasis on the textual uncertainty.