Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope : a political companion to Invisible man /

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Imprint:	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 249 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Ellison, Ralph. -- Invisible man. Ellison, Ralph -- Political and social views. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man (Ellison, Ralph) Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Political fiction, American -- History and criticism. African American men in literature. African Americans in literature. African American men in literature. African Americans in literature. Political and social views. Political fiction, American. Politics and literature. United States. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208194

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Other authors / contributors:	Morel, Lucas E., 1964-
ISBN:	9780813147734 0813147735 0813123127 9780813123127
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-243) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"Ellison's relevance as a political novelist, essayist, and commentator did not end with the publication of Invisible Man or as the civil rights movement waned. This collection of essays demonstrates that Invisible Man deserves its place in the pantheon of great American novels and that Ellison should be regarded as an essential framer of recent American political thought. His conception of America's basic democratic project - strangers, bound together by common citizenship, crafting a vision for America's future and forging consensus on the path toward that goal - is especially valid in the new century as the nation struggles with divisions and contradictions unimagined during Ellison's lifetime." "The essays in Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope probe the political lessons of the landmark novel Invisible Man, in which Ellision reflects on the sacred ideals that set the American republic into motion."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2004

Table of Contents:

Recovering the political artistry of Invisible man / Lucas E. Morel
Affirming the principle / James Seaton
Ralph Ellison on the tragi-comedy of citizenship / Danielle Allen
Ralph Ellison's American democratic individualism / Lucas E. Morel
Invisible man and Juneteenth: Ralph Ellison's literary pursuit of racial justice / Thomas S. Engeman
Invisible man as 'a form of social power': the evolution of Ralph Ellison's politics / William R. Nash
Invisible man as literary analog to Brown v. Board of education / Alfred L. Brophy
Ralph Ellison and the problem of cultural authority: the lessons of Little Rock / Kenneth W. Warren
Ralph Ellison and the invisibility of the black intellectual: historical reflections on Invisible man / Charles 'Pete' Banner-Haley
The litany of things: sacrament and history in Invisible man / Marc C. Conner
Documenting turbulence: the dialectics of chaos in Invisible man / Herman Beavers
The lingering question of personality and nation in Invisible man: 'and could politics ever be an expression of love?' / John F. Callahan.

Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope : a political companion to Invisible man /

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