Invisible criticism : Ralph Ellison and the American canon / by Alan Nadel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nadel, Alan, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

Canon (Literature).

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man.

Ellison, Ralph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1952 Ralph Ellison won the National Book Award for his Kafkaesque and claustrophobic novel about the life of a nameless young black man in New York City. Although Invisible Man has remained the only novel that Ellison published in his lifetime, it is generally regarded as one of the most important works of fiction in our century.This new reading of a classic work examines Ellison's relation to and critique of the American literary canon by demonstrating that the pattern of allusions in Invisible Man forms a literary-critical subtext which challenges the a

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Origins of Invisibility; 2. Translating Tradition; 3. Tod Clifton: Spiritual and Carnal; 4. Invisible Man in the Golden Day; 5. Invisible Criticism: Melville and Emerson Revised; 6. Invisible Man, Huck, and Jim; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587291630

1587291630

OCLC:

45729573