Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
A Casebook
Published on 1. April 2004
367 pages
978-0-19-972640-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers students and scholars a rich variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novel 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 distinguished 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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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
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Prologue: Ralph Ellison on Invisible Man
- Before Publication
- After Publication
- Part II: Critical Essays on Invisible Man
- Ralph Ellison's Trueblooded Bildungsroman
- Ellison's Zoot Suit
- Ellison's Vision of Communitas
- Ralph Ellison, Race, and American Culture
- The Rules of Magic: Hemingway as Ellison's "Ancestor"
- The Meaning of Narration in Invisible Man
- The Conscious Hero and the Rites of Man: Ellison's War
- Notes on the Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
- Luminosity from the Lower Frequencies
- Ellison's Invisible Man
- Part III: Epilogue
- On Initiation Rites and Power: A Lecture at West Point
- Selected Bibliography
