Shadowing Ralph Ellison
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: August 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781578068500
Subjects: Literary Criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; American - African American & Black; American - General; African Americans in literature; Ellison, Ralph
Description: "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.