Bibliograph

The collected essays of Ralph Ellison, edited and with a new introduction by John F. Callahan ; preface by Saul Bellow

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The collected essays of Ralph Ellison, edited and with a new introduction by John F. Callahan ; preface by Saul Bellow

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

The collected essays of Ralph Ellison

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1422580836

Responsibility statement

edited and with a new introduction by John F. Callahan ; preface by Saul Bellow

Summary

The complete collection of Ellison's reviews, criticism, and interviews is a witty and literate compendium and the only complete edition on the market

Table Of Contents

Preface by Saul Bellow -- Editor's note -- Introduction by John F. Callahan -- Postcript to the introduction by John F. Callahan -- February -- A congress Jim Crow didn't attend -- Flamenco -- "Tell it like it is, baby" -- And I have no other identity -- Shadow and act : Introduction ; I. The seer and the seen ; II. Sound and the mainstream ; III. The shadow and the act ; Working notes for Invisible Man ; A special message to subscribers ; Testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Harlem and Urban America ; Indivisible man ; James Armistead Lafayette ; Commencement address at the College of William and Mary ; Address to the Harvard College Alumni, class of 1949 ; Haverford statement ; Homage to William L. Dawson ; Alain Locke ; Roscoe Dunee and the American language ; The discipline of American humor ; Presentation to Bernard Malamud of the Gold Medal for Fiction ; Introduction to the thirtieth-anniversary edition of Invisible Man -- Going to the Territory : "A completion of personality": a talk with Ralph Ellison ; On being the target of discrimination ; Bearden ; Notes for class day talk at Columbia University ; Foreword to The Beer Can by the Highway ; Address at the Whiting Foundation

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