Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
A Casebook
Published on 22. April 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-19-514536-6 (ISBN)
Description
Ralph Ellisons' Invisible Man: A Casebook offers students and scholars a rich variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novels and the man who created it. Both Ellison's comments, a number of which appear in print here for the first time, and those of ten distignuished scholars of American and African-American literature take the position that there can be no last word on Invisible Man. Different as they are, the essays share a respect for the novel's fluidity and for every reader's encounter with its narrator, story, and meanings.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Scholars and students of literature and literary criticism
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
519 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-514536-6 (9780195145366)
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04/2004
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Person
John F. Callahan is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College. He is literary executor for Ralph Ellison's estate.
Content
John F. Callahan: Introduction
Part I Prologue: Ralph Ellison on Invisible Man
Before Publication
After Publication
Part II Critical Essays on Invisible Man
1: Kenneth Burke: Ralph Ellison's Trueblooded Bildungsroman
2: Larry Neal: Ellison's Zoot Suit
3: Nathan A. Scott, Jr.: Ellison's Vision of Communitas
4: Morris Dickstein: Ralph Ellison, Race, and American Culture
5: Robert G. O'Meally: The Rules of Magic: Hemingway as Ellison's "Ancestor"
6: Valerie Smith: The Meaning of Narration in Invisible Man
7: John S. Wright: The Conscious Hero and the Rites of Man: Ellison's War
8: Claudia Tate: Notes on the Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
9: Leon Forrest: Luminosity from the Lower Frequencies
10: John F. Callahan: Ellison's Invisible Man
Part III Epilogue
Ralph Ellison: On Initiation Rites and Power: A Lecture at West Point
Selected Bibliography
Part I Prologue: Ralph Ellison on Invisible Man
Before Publication
After Publication
Part II Critical Essays on Invisible Man
1: Kenneth Burke: Ralph Ellison's Trueblooded Bildungsroman
2: Larry Neal: Ellison's Zoot Suit
3: Nathan A. Scott, Jr.: Ellison's Vision of Communitas
4: Morris Dickstein: Ralph Ellison, Race, and American Culture
5: Robert G. O'Meally: The Rules of Magic: Hemingway as Ellison's "Ancestor"
6: Valerie Smith: The Meaning of Narration in Invisible Man
7: John S. Wright: The Conscious Hero and the Rites of Man: Ellison's War
8: Claudia Tate: Notes on the Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
9: Leon Forrest: Luminosity from the Lower Frequencies
10: John F. Callahan: Ellison's Invisible Man
Part III Epilogue
Ralph Ellison: On Initiation Rites and Power: A Lecture at West Point
Selected Bibliography