Ralph Ellison
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays
By: edited by John Hersey.
Series: Twentieth century views
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780132743570; 9780132743402
Copyright date: 1974
Subjects: Ellison, Ralph -- Criticism and interpretation.; African Americans in literature.
Description: A collection of essays by celebrated critics and authors examines the American author's great novel Invisible man, and his enduring influence on modern fiction.
Notes: "A Spectrum book" - title page.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "A completion of personality" : a talk with Ralph Ellison; title: Part one : "The cost of being human".; title: The unity of experience / Robert Penn Warren; title: Man underground / Saul Bellow; title: Signifying everything / Lawrence Washington Chisolm; title: Black boys and native sons / Irving Howe; title: Ralph Ellison in our time / Stanley Edgar Hyman; title: Part two : "Creating the uncreated features of his face".; title: Indivisible man / James Alan McPherson; title: Part three : "Who knows but that I speak for you?".; title: Ellison's zoot suit / Larry Neal; title: The music of invisibility / Tony Tanner; title: Ralph Ellison and the uses of the imagination / Robert Bone; title: Ralph Ellison and the birth of the anti-hero / William J. Schafer; title: Invisible man : somebody's protest novel / Thomas A. Vogler; title: Ralph Ellison and the American comic tradition / Earl H. Rovit; title: Ralph Ellison and the Afro-American folk and cultural tradition / George E. Kent; title: Violence in Afro-American fiction : an hypothesis / Stepen B. Bennett, William W. Nichols; title: Notes on the editor and contributors; title: Selected bibliography