Shadowing Ralph Ellison:
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Beteilige Person: Wright, John S., (John Samuel) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2006
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index
Acknowledgments; Chronology of Ralph Ellison's Life, Contacts, and of Relevant Events; Prologue: Orienting Metaphors for a Metaphysical Manhunt; Chapter One: Dedicated Dreamer, Consecrated Acts: Shadowing Ellison; Chapter Two: The Conscious Hero and the Rites of Man: Ellison's War; Chapter Three: Ellison's Spiritual Technologies; Chapter Four: The Man of Letters and the Unending Conversation; Epilogue: The Last Gestalt: Ellison's Unfinished Business; Notes; Bibliography; Index
In 1952, Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) published his novel Invisible Man, which transformed the dynamics of American literature. The novel won the National Book Award, extended the themes of his early short stories, and dramatized in fictional form the cultural theories expressed in his later essay collections Shadow & Act and Going to the Territory. In Shadowing Ralph Ellison, John Wright traces Ellison's intellectual and aesthetic development and the evolution of his cultural philosophy throughout his long career. The book explores Ellison's published fiction, his criticism and correspondence, a
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