Speaking for you : the vision of Ralph Ellison /

Speaking for you : the vision of Ralph Ellison /

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1987.
Description:x, 438 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Ellison, Ralph -- Criticism and interpretation.
Ellison, Ralph.
African Americans in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/915331
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Other authors / contributors:Benston, Kimberly W.
ISBN:0882581694 : $21.95
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 411-419.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Masks of Ralph Ellison
  • Part 1. Going to the Territory: Biography, Geography, Topography
  • Growing Up Black in Frontier Oklahoma... From an Ellison Perspective
  • Indivisible Man
  • A Meditation on the Life and Times of Ralph Waldo Ellison (Poems)
  • Part 2. Slipping the Yoke: The "Frequencies" of Shadow and Act
  • Travels with Ralph Ellison Through Time and Thought
  • Ellison's Essays
  • The Testament of Ralph Ellison
  • Shadowing Ellison
  • Part 3. The Art of Ambiguity: Myth, Ideology, Aesthetics
  • Through a Writer's Eyes
  • Ralph Ellison and Afro-American Folk and Cultural Tradition
  • Ellison's Zoot Suit
  • Chaos, Complexity, and Possibility: The Historical Frequencies of Ralph Waldo Ellison
  • Ellison's "Usable Past": Toward a Theory of Myth
  • Fiction and Idea: A Note on Ellison's "Black Mask of Humanity"
  • Notes on the Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
  • Improvising America: Ralph Ellison and the Paradox of Form
  • Part 4. Choosing Ancestors: The "Possibilities" of Literary Tradition
  • Remembering Richard Wright
  • From Native Son to Invisible Man: Some Notes on Ralph Ellison's Evolution in the 1950s
  • The Wright Interpretation: Ralph Ellison and the Anxiety of Influence
  • Ralph Ellison and a Literary "Ancestor": Dostoevski
  • The Rules of Magic: Hemingway as Ellison's "Ancestor"
  • The Mixed Heritage of the Modern Black Novel: Ralph Ellison and Friends
  • Part 5. Speaking for You: Reinterpretations of Invisible Man
  • "A Completion of Personality": A Talk with Ralph Ellison
  • Luminosity from the Lower Frequencies
  • To Move Without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison's Trueblood Episode
  • Ralph Ellison's Trueblooded Bildungsroman
  • Literacy and Hibernation: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
  • Spokesman for Invisibility
  • Fingering the Jagged Grains (Poem)
  • Part 6. Bibliography, Contributors, Index
  • The Writings of Ralph Ellison
  • Contributors
  • Index

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