With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish
prose he brought to his classic novel "Invisible Man," Ralph
Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the
literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His
range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright,
Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, "The Birth of a Nation "and the
Dante-esque landscape of Harlem--"the scene and symbol of the
Negro's perpetual alienation in the land of his birth." Throughout,
he gives us what amounts to an episodic autobiography that traces
his formation as a writer as well as the genesis of "Invisible
Man.
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On every page, Ellison reveals his idiosyncratic and often
contrarian brilliance, his insistence on refuting both black and
white stereotypes of what an African American writer should say or
be. The result is a book that continues to instruct, delight, and
occasionally outrage readers.
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