Ralph Ellison and the genius of America / Timothy Parrish.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 253 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ralph Ellison has long been admired as the author of one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man.Yet he has also been dismissed by some critics as a writer who only published one major work of fiction and a black intellectual out of touch with his times.
- Contents:
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- Introduction: Ellison reconstituted: beyond Invisible man
- Philip Roth's Invisible man
- Richard Wright's apprentice
- Ellison, Warren, and Woodward: the other side of Invisible man
- Invisible man's political vision: Ellison and King
- Epilogue: After Ellison, toward Obama.
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- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-188-0
- OCLC:
- 794700815
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