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<journal-id>0185-3082</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Acta poética]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Acta poét]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0185-3082</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0185-30822026000100033</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.19130/iifl.ap.2026.1/00x43w0sm273</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[El crítico literario como testigo experto: Henry Louis Gates Jr. y el caso 2 Live Crew]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The Literary Critic as Expert Witness: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the 2 Live Crew Case]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Herrera Pardo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Hugo]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Chile</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>47</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>33</fpage>
<lpage>50</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-30822026000100033&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-30822026000100033&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-30822026000100033&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: El presente artículo se concentra en analizar la participación del crítico literario Henry Louis Gates Jr. como perito en el juicio contra el grupo de rap 2 Live Crew, acusado de obscenidad por su canción &#8220;Me So Horny&#8221;, en la primavera de 1990. Se analiza el empleo, en contexto judicial, de la teoría del Signifying Monkey, elaborada por Gates Jr. en su libro The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (1988) y la réplica que la pensadora feminista Kimberlé Crenshaw realizó del caso &#8212;y de la participación de Gates Jr. en el mismo&#8212; en su ensayo &#8220;Beyond Racism and Misogyny. Black Feminism and the 2 Live Crew&#8221;. La reflexión presentada tiene como foco la heteronomía entre ley y justicia abordada por Jacques Derrida en Fuerza de ley (1997) y las &#8220;dimensiones públicas de la violencia epistémica&#8221; desarrollada por Julio Ramos en Paradojas de la letra.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: This article focuses on analyzing the role of literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. as an expert witness in the trial against the rap group 2 Live Crew, who were accused of obscenity for their song &#8220;Me So Horny&#8221; in the spring of 1990. It examines the application, within a legal context, of the &#8220;Signifying Monkey&#8221; theory, developed by Gates Jr. in his book The Signifying Monkey. A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (1988), and the critique of the case &#8212;and of Gates Jr.&#8217;s involvement in it&#8212; offered by feminist thinker Kimberlé Crenshaw in her essay &#8220;Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and the 2 Live Crew&#8221;. The analysis presented here centers on the heteronomy between law and justice, as addressed by Jacques Derrida in Force of Law (1997), and the &#8220;public dimensions of epistemic violence&#8221; discussed by Julio Ramos in Paradojas de la letra.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[crítica literaria]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[derecho y literatura]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Signifying Monkey]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[diferendo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[violencia epistémica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Literary criticism]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[law and literature]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[&#8220;Signifying Monkey&#8221;]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[dispute]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[epistemic violence]]></kwd>
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