Ralph Ellison's Invisible man / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man.

Ellison, Ralph.

African American men in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 205 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2009]

Summary:

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is one of the great American novels of the twentieth century and perhaps the greatest novel by an African-American writer. This invaluable new edition of the study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism on this American classic.

Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, a series of more than 100 volumes, presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and The Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Paulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don DeLillo's White Noise. Each volume opens with an introductory essay and editor's note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliograpy, a chronology of the writer's life and works, and notes on the contributors. Taken together, Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations provides a comprehensive critical guide to the most vital and influential works of the Western literary tradition.

Contents:

Reading Ralph Ellison Synthesizing the CP and NAACP: Sympathetic Narrative Strategy, Sympathetic Bodies / Brian Russell Roberts 7

Reinventing Ralph Ellison / Raymond A. Mazurek 25

Eloquence and Invisible Man / Christopher Hanlon 31

Invisible Man and African American Radicalism in World War II / Christopher Z. Hobson 55

The Blackness of Blackness Reading the Typography of Invisible Man / Jennifer DeVere Brody 85

A Counter-Sign in the Punch Line: The Tragi-Comic Blending of Identities in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Michio Arimitsu 111

"A Friendship That Has Meant So Much": Robert Penn Warren and Ralph W. Ellison / Steven D. Ealy 127

Knucklebones and Knocking-bones: The Accidental Trickster in Ellison's Invisible Man / Julia Sun-Joo Lee 141

Black Power: Minstrelsy and Electricity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Johnnie Wilcox 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781604135848

1604135840

OCLC:

290487318