Full Description
The essays in this collection treat the whole of Ralph Ellison's body of work, including his famous novel Invisible Man. The volume confronts Ellison the man of ideas, essayist, and short story writer, as well as the material in his posthumously published novel Juneteenth, in order to provide contemporary readers and critics with a comprehensive examination of Ellison.
Contents
Abbreviations
Steven C. Tracy: Introduction
Maryemma Graham and Jeffery Dwayne Mack: Ralph Ellison, 1913-1994: A Brief Biography
Ellison in His Time
1: William J. Maxwell: "Creative and Cultural Lag": The Radical Education of Ralph Ellison
2: Steven C. Tracy: A Delicate Ear, a Rententive Memory, and the Power to Weld the Fragments
3: James Smethurst: "Something Warmly, Infuriatingly Feminine": Gender, Sexuality, and the Work of Ralph Ellison
4: Alan Nadel: The Integrated Literary Tradition
5: Lawrence P. Jackson: Ralph Ellison's Politics of Integration
Illustrated Chronology
Robert J. Butler: Bibliographical Essay - Probing the Lower Frequencies: Fifty Years of Ellison Criticism
Contributors
Index
