Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison

Name: Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison
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ISBN: 9780195152500

ISBN-10: 0195152506

ISBN-13: 9780195152500

Edition: 2004

Authors: Steven C. Tracy

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Ralph Ellison has been a controversial figure, both lionized and vilified, since he seemed to burst onto the national literary scene in 1952 with the publication of Invisible Man. In this volume Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics who look not only at Ellison's seminal novel but also at the fiction and nonfiction work that both preceded and followed it, focusing on important historical and cultural influences that help contextualize Ellison's thematic concerns and artistic aesthetic. These essays, all previously unpublished, explore how Ellison's various apprenticeships--in politics as a Black radical; in music as an admirer and practitioner of European, American, and…

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List price: $88.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/20/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 8.31" wide x 5.71" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Steven C. Tracy is a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts and is the author of Langston Hughes and the Blues and Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the Queen City.



Abbreviations


Introduction



Ralph Ellison, 1913-1994: A Brief Biography



Ellison in His Time



""Creative and Cultural Lag"": The Radical Education of




A Delicate Ear, a Rententive Memory, and the Power to Weld the Fragments




""Something Warmly, Infuriatingly Feminine"": Gender, Sexuality, and the Work of Ralph Ellison




The Integrated Literary Tradition




Ralph Ellison's Politics of Integration



Illustrated Chronology


Bibliographical Essay - Probing the Lower Frequencies: Fifty Years of Ellison Criticism



Contributors


Index