Ralph Ellison, temporal technologist / Michael Germana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Germana, Michael, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ellison, Ralph--Criticism and interpretation.

Ellison, Ralph.

Time in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

'Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist' examines Ralph Ellison's body of work as an extended and ever-evolving expression of the author's philosophy of temporality-a philosophy synthesized from the writings of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche that anticipates the work of Gilles Deleuze.

Contents:

Introduction

Overture . Time, History, and Becoming in Invisible Man

Vision. Peristrephic Visions: Henry Box Brown, Ralph Ellison, and the Panoramic Logic of Invisible Man

Rhopographic Photography and Atemporal Cinema: The Link Between Ralph Ellison's Polaroids and Three Days Before the Shooting

Sound. "Modulate, Daddy, Modulate!": Polyrhythms and Metric Modulation in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison

A Deep Pocket for the Truth of the Times: Ellison's Other Groove of History

Conclusion.

'Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist' elucidates the theory of temporality that binds Ellison's oeuvre together, and explains why race is a matter of time. Germana offers a wholesale reinterpretation of Ellison's corpus as well as an extension of Ellison's ideas about the dynamism of becoming and the open-endedness of the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 13, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-068210-8

0-19-068211-6