The Cambridge companion to Ralph Ellison.
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
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| Description: | xiv, 237 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5644207 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction: Ellison's joking
- 1. Ralph Ellison's invented life: a meeting with the ancestors
- 2. Ellison and the black Church: the gospel according to Ralph
- 3. Ellison, photography, and the origins of invisibility
- 4. Ralph Ellison's music lessons
- 5. Ralph Ellison's constitutional faith
- 6. Ralph Ellison and the politics of melancholia
- 7. Invisible Ellison: the fight to be a Negro leader
- 8. Ellison's experimental attitude and the technologies of illumination
- 9. Female iconography in Invisible Man
- 10. Chaos not quite controlled: Ellison's uncompleted transit to Juneteenth
- 11. Ralph Ellison, Hannah Arendt, and the meaning of politics
- 12. Dry bones
- Selected bibliography and suggestions for further reading
- Index
