Cultural contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible man /
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Imprint: | Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1995. |
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Description: | xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | A Bedford documentary companion Bedford documentary companion. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2344029 |
Summary: | The collection of primary documents in this volume recapitulates the course of African American life during the first half of the 20th century, while it provides a context for reading an important literary work. Keyed to events in the novel, the documents include selections by African American leaders (Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du bois, and Marcus Garvey); selections by leading African American writers (Langston Hughes and Richard Wright); songs, folktales, and other examples of black vernacular culture; and readings on African American migration, black labour in the industrial North, the role of communism in African American politics, and the end of legal segregation in the United States. |
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Physical Description: | xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-255). |
ISBN: | 0312100817 |