Ralph Ellison in Context
Part of Literature in Context
- Editor: Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Academy, New York
- Date Published: December 2021
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108488969
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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is the second-most assigned American novel since 1945 and is one of the most enduring. It is studied by many thousands of high school and college students every year and has been since the 1950s. His landmark essays, with their blend of personal history and cultural theory, have been extraordinarily influential. Ralph Ellison in Context includes authoritative chapters summing up longstanding conversations, while offering groundbreaking essays on a variety of topics not yet covered in the copious critical and biographical literature. It provides fresh perspectives on some of the most important people and places in Ellison's life, and explores where his work and biography cross paths with some of the pressing topics of his time. It includes chapters on Ellison's literary influences and offers a definitive overview of his early writings. It also provides an overview of Ellison's reception and reputation from his death in 1994 through 2020.
Read more- Provides fresh perspectives on some of the most important people and places in Ellison's life
- Chapters sum up longstanding conversations on Ralph Ellison
- Offers a definitive overview of his early writings
- Provides an overview of Ellison's reception and reputation from his death in 1994 through 2020
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'… an ideal introduction to the scholarship surrounding this important writer … Recommended,' J. W. Miller, Choice
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- Date Published: December 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108488969
- length: 375 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.81kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Part I. Geographical, Institutional, and Interpersonal Contexts: 1. Oklahoma City and 'the territory' Tracy Floreani
2. Ghosts of Tuskegee Caroline Gebhard
3. Morteza drexel sprague Matthew McKnight
4. New York City, 1936-1946 Sara Rutkowski
5. The U.S. merchant marine Paul Devlin
6. Fanny Ellison Colleen Eils
7. Rome, 1955-1957 Sara Marzioli
8. Postwar New York Andrew Davenport
9. Albert Murray after 1962 Paul Devlin
Part II. Historical, Political, and Cultural Contexts: 10. Visualizing Black identity in Ellison's fiction Lena Hill
11. Alternating currents: Electricity, humanism, and resistance Jennifer L. Lieberman
12. Sounds and signs of Black womanhood Meina Yates-Richard
13. Masculinity E. Al-Tariq Moore
14. Aesthetics of democracy Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr
15. Black power and Black arts Matthew Calihman
16. Wrestling with the far right: Ellison's representations of fascism Kevin Moore
17. Southwestern swing Steven Lewis
18. The self-fashioned American blues identity Kimberly Mack
19. Ellison's durational view of bebop Michael Germana
Part III. Literary and Critical Contexts: 20. The Harlem renaissance Michael Borshuk
21. Ellison's early writings Barbara Foley
22. The Wright school Stephan Kuhl
23. Literary modernism Tessa Roynon
24. Beyond raglan's Hero: Ellison's ritualist influences Bryan Crable
25. Sociology Scott Selisker
26. The soapbox speech in Ellison's fiction Granville Ganter
27. Postwar literary aesthetics Jesse McCarthy
28. Ellison as correspondent Marc C. Conner
Part IV. Reception and Reputation:
29. Critical reputation, 1994-2020 Paul Devlin and Robert Butler
30. Reading invisible man by design Kinohi Nishikawa
31. Reception of the Hickman novel Benji de la Piedra
32. Reception of the essay collections Matthew Lambert
33. Reception in the USSR and former USSR Olga Panova
34. Biographies of Ellison Timothy Parrish
35. Ellison and digital humanities J. D. Porter.
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