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A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison (Hardcover)
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A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison (Hardcover)
Series: Historical Guides to American Authors
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Ralph Ellison has been a controversial figure, both lionized and
vilified, since he seemed to burst onto the national literary scene
in 1952 with the publication of Invisible Man. In this volume
Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics who look not
only at Ellison's seminal novel but also at the fiction and
nonfiction work that both preceded and followed it, focusing on
important historical and cultural influences that help
contextualize Ellison's thematic concerns and artistic aesthetic.
These essays, all previously unpublished, explore how Ellison's
various apprenticeships--in politics as a Black radical; in music
as an admirer and practitioner of European, American, and
African-American music; and in literature as heir to his realist,
naturalist, and modernist forebears--affected his mature literary
productions, including his own careful molding of his literary
reputation. They present us with a man negotiating the difficult
sociopolitical, intellectual, and artistic terrain facing African
Americans as America was increasingly forced to confront its own
failures with regard to the promise of the American dream to its
diverse populations. These wide-ranging historical essays, along
with a brief biography and an illustrated chronology, provide a
concise yet authoritative discussion of a twentieth-century
American writer whose continued presence on the stage of American
and world literature and culture is now assured.
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