Heroism and the black intellectual
Subtitle: Ralph Ellison, politics, and Afro-American intellectual life
By: Jerry Gafio Watts.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Ellison, Ralph -- Political and social views.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Politics and government.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; African Americans in literature.; Courage in literature.; Heroes in literature.; Race in literature.
Description: Explores the writings of novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison as the basis of an examination of the struggles faced by African-American artists and thinkers to create spaces for themselves as intellectuals in modern American society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-154) and index.