The new territory : Ralph Ellison and the twenty-first century / edited by Marc C. Conner and Lucas E. Morel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conner, Marc C., 1965- editor.

Morel, Lucas E., 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ellison, Ralph--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Ellison, Ralph.

Literature and society--United States--History--21st century--Congresses.

Literature and society.

African Americans in literature--Congresses.

African Americans in literature.

Race relations in literature--Congresses.

Race relations in literature.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 360 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction / Marc C. Conner and Lucas E. Morel

Invisible man sixty years later: revisiting Ellison's masterpiece in the twenty-first century. Invisible man and the politics of love / Robert Butler

The body and Invisible man: Ralph Ellison's novel in twenty-first-century performance and public spaces / Patrice Rankine

The noisy lostness: oppositionality and acousmatic subjectivity in Invisible man / Herman Beavers

Invisible man in the age of Obama: Ellison on (color) blindness, visibility, and the hopes for a postracial America / Bryan Crable

Three days before the shooting: Ellison's ongoing epic of America. Ralph Ellison in his labyrinth / Eric J. Sundquist

The politics of fatherhood in Three days before the shooting / Lena Hill

Father Abraham: Ellison's Agon with the fathers in Three days before the shooting / Marc C. Conner

Ralph Ellison's Three days: the aesthetics of political change / Timothy Parrish

Ralph Ellison's Three days before the shooting a and the implicit morality of form / Grant Shreve

Ralph Ellison and American culture: Ellison past, present, and future. In a strange country: the challenge of American inclusion / Lucas E. Morel

Invisible man's grandfather and the American dream / Steven D. Ealy

Mourning and melancholy: explaining the Ellison animus / Ross Posnock

"How many lightbulbs does it take to screw in a blues singer?": the French Revolution, King Louis Armstrong, and the futuristic jungleism of jazz / Steven C. Tracy

Conclusion: Ralph Ellison in the twenty-first century. That pause for contemplatio: a centennial meditation on Ralph Ellison / John Callahan.

Notes:

Based on papers presented at a 2012 symposium held at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, on Ralph Eiilison and the twenty-first century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496806796

1496806794

OCLC:

930257168