Title: Shadowing Ralph Ellison /
Authors: Wright, John S. 1946-
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Ellison, Ralph Criticism and interpretation.; African Americans in literature
Abstract: "In Shadowing Ralph Ellision, 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, and his passionate exchanges with - and impact on - other literary intellectuals during the Cold War 1950s and during the culture wars of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s."--Jacket.
Contents: Chronology of Ralph Ellison's life, contacts, and of relevant events -- Prologue: Orienting metaphors for a metaphysical manhunt -- Dedicated dreamer, consecrated acts: shadowing Ellison -- The conscious hero and the rites of man: Ellison's war -- Ellison's spiritual technologies -- The man of letters and the unending conversation -- Epilogue: The last Gestalt: Ellison's unfinished business.