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9780195145366

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man A Casebook

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195145366

  • ISBN10:

    0195145364

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-04-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Casebooks in Criticism offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interview with the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts. Book jacket.

Author Biography


John F. Callahan is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College. He is literary executor for Ralph Ellison's estate.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3(23)
John F. Callahan
Part I Prologue: Ralph Ellison on Invisible Man
Before Publication
23(12)
After Publication
35(30)
Part II Critical Essays on Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison's Trueblooded Bildungsroman
65(16)
Kenneth Burke
Ellison's Zoot Suit
81(28)
Larry Neal
Ellison's Vision of Communitas
109(16)
Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
Ralph Ellison, Race, and American Culture
125(24)
Morris Dickstein
The Rules of Magic: Hemingway as Ellison's ``Ancestor''
149(40)
Robert G. O'Meally
The Meaning of Narration in Invisible Man
189(32)
Valerie Smith
The Conscious Hero and the Rites of Man: Ellison's War
221(32)
John S. Wright
Notes on the Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
253(14)
Claudia Tate
Luminosity from the Lower Frequencies
267(20)
Leon Forrest
Ellison's Invisible Man
287(36)
John F. Callahan
Part III Epilogue
On Initiation Rites and Power: A Lecture at West Point
323(22)
Ralph Ellison
Selected Bibliography 345

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