Contributions by Herman Beavers, Robert Butler, John Callahan, Marc
C. Conner, Bryan Crable, Steven D. Ealy, Lena Hill, Lucas E. Morel,
Timothy Parrish, Ross Posnock, Patrice Rankine, Grant Shreve, Eric
J. Sundquist, and Steven E. Tracy.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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