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The New Territory - Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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The New Territory - Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Ralph Ellison once said, ""We're only a partially achieved
nation."" In The New Territory, scholars show how clearly Ellison
foresaw and articulated both the challenges and the possibilities
of America in the twenty-first century. Indeed, Ellison in these
new essays appears more and more to be a cultural prophet of
twenty-first century America. As literary scholar Ross Posnock
states, ""If in our global, transnational age the renewed promise
of cosmopolitan democracy has emerged as an animating ideal of
popular political, and academic culture, this is a way of saying
that we are only now beginning to catch up with Ralph Waldo
Ellison.""In this collection, the editors offer fourteen original
essays that seek to examine and re-examine Ellison's life and work
in the context of its meanings for our own age, the early
twenty-first century, the age of Obama, a period that is seemingly
post-racial and yet all too acutely racial. Following a careful
introduction that situates Ellison's writings in the context of new
approaches and interest in his work, the book offers new essays
examining Ellison's 1952 masterpiece, Invisible Man. It then turns
to his vast, unfinished second novel, Three Days Before the
Shooting . . . , with detailed readings of that powerful and
elusive narrative. These essays are the first sustained treatments
of that posthumous work. The New Territory concludes with five
chapters that discuss Ellison's political, cultural, and historical
significance, probing how he speaks to the contemporary moment and
beyond.
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