Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
By: edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Critisicm
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9780791097908
Subjects: Ellison, Ralph; African American men in literature; African Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-74) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural context of Invisible man: Brown v. Board of Education; title: Ralph Ellison on protest in Invisible man; title: Larry Neal on Ellison's place in the art versus politics conflict; title: Kerry McSweeney on influences on Invisible man; title: Alan Nadel on Invisible man and Huck and Jim; title: Walter Slatoff on staying human and sane in Invisible man; title: Eric J. Sundquist on Ralph Ellison, Jazz, and Louis Armstrong; title: John F. Callahan on the struggle for eloquence; title: Lawrence Jackson on the concept of invisibility; title: Shelly Eversley on female invisibility in the novel; title: Ross Posnock compares the political views of Ralph Ellison and Hannah Arendt; title: Anne Anlin Cheng on ambiguity in racial encounters; title: Michael Anderson on Ellison's failed genius.