The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
Published on 1. June 2011
816 pages
978-0-307-79702-5 (ISBN)
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Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as "a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. "Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, "reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”
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John F. Callahan is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College. He edited Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth and co-edited, with Albert Murray, the Modern Library edition of Trading Twelves.
Saul Bellow, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has written thirteen novels and numerous novellas, stories, and essays.
Saul Bellow, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has written thirteen novels and numerous novellas, stories, and essays.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Biographical Note
- Acknowledgments
- Preface by Saul Bellow
- Contents
- Introduction by John F. Callahan
- Editor's Note
- February
- A Congress Jim Crow Didn't Attend
- Flamenco
- "Tell It Like It is, Baby"
- Shadow and Act
- Introduction
- I. The Seer and The Seen
- That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure: An Interview
- Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity
- Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke
- Stephen Crane and the Mainstream of American Fiction
- Richard Wright's Blues
- Beating That Boy
- Brave Words for a Startling Occasion
- The World and the Jug
- Hidden Name and Complex Fate
- The Art of Fiction: An Interview
- II. Sound and The Mainstream
- Living with Music
- The Golden Age, Time Past
- As the Spirit Moves Mahalia
- On Bird, Bird-Watching and Jazz
- The Charlie Christian Story
- Remembering Jimmy
- Blues People
- III. The Shadow and the Act
- Some Questions and Some Answers
- The Shadow and the Act
- The Way It is
- Harlem is Nowhere
- An American Dilemma: A Review
- Working Notes for Invisible Man
- A Special Message to Subscribers
- Indivisible Man
- James Armistead Lafayette
- Commencement Address at the College of William and Mary
- Address to the Harvard College Alumni, Class of 1949
- Haverford Statement
- Homage to William L. Dawson
- Alain Locke
- Roscoe Dunjee and the American Language
- Presentation to Bernard Malamud of the Gold Medal for Fiction
- Introduction to the Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition of Invisible Man
- Going to the Territory
- The Little Man at Chehaw Station: The American Artist and His Audience
- On Initiation Rites and Power: A Lecture at West Point
- What These Children are Like
- The Myth of the Flawed White Southerner
- If the Twain Shall Meet
- What America would Be Like Without Blacks
- Portrait of Inman Page: A Dedication Speech
- Going to the Territory
- An Extravagance of Laughter
- Remembering Richard Wright
- Homage to Duke Ellington on His Birthday
- The Art of Romare Bearden
- Society, Morality and the Novel
- "A Very Stern Discipline"
- The Novel as a Function of American Democracy
- Perspective of Literature
- "A Completion of Personality": A Talk with Ralph Ellison
- On Being the Target of Discrimination
- Bearden
- Notes for Class Day Talk at Columbia University
- Foreword to the Beer can by the Highway
- Address at the Whiting Foundation
- About the Editor
