A historical guide to Ralph Ellison / edited by Steven C. Tracy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tracy, Steven C., editor.

Series:

Historical guides to American authors.

Oxford scholarship online.

Historical guides to American authors

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in this collection treat the whole of Ralph Ellison's body of work, including his famous novel "Invisible Man". The volume confronts Ellison the man of ideas, essayist and short story writer, as well as the material in his posthumously published novel "Juneteenth".

Contents:

Introduction / Steven C. Tracy

Ralph Ellison : a brief biography / Maryemma Graham and Jeffery Dwayne Mack

Creative and cultural lag : the radical education of Ralph Ellison / William Maxwell

A delicate ear, a retentive memory, and the power to weld the fragments / Steven C. Tracy

Something warmly, infuriatingly feminine : gender, sexuality, and the works of Ralph Ellison / James Smethurst

The integrated literary tradition / Alan Nadel

Ralph Ellison's politics of integration / Lawrence Jackson.

Notes:

CIP entry (Jul.)

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-772456-6

0-19-972732-5

1-280-53245-9

1-4237-6155-3

1-4337-0037-9

OCLC:

65188504