The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison

Table of contents

• Recent Titles in Critical Responses in Arts and Letters ii
• Title Page iii
• Copyright Acknowledgments v
• Contents xi
• Series Foreword xv
• Acknowledgments xvii
• Introduction xix
• Notes xxxvii
• Chronology xli
• Overview: A Conversation with Ralph Ellison 1
• Study and Experience: An Interview with Ralph Ellison 3
• Early Reviews of Invisible Man 17
• A Review of Invisible Man 19
• A Negro in America 21
• Black and Blue: A Negro CéLine 23
• Man Underground 27
• The Deep Pit 31
• A Novel Is a Novel 35
• Eccentric's Pilgrimage 39
• From Native Son to Invisible Man: A Review of the Literature of the Negro for 1952 41
• Seminal Studies 43
• Ralph Ellison's Modern Version of Brer Bear and Brer Rabbit in Invisible Man 45
• Ralph Ellison and the Afro-American Folk and Cultural Tradition 51
• Notes 57
• Contemporary Readings of Invisible Man 59
• Luminosity from the Lower Frequencies 61
• Notes 71
• To Move without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison's Trueblood Episode 73
• Notes 92
• Works Cited 93
• Dante's Inferno and Ellison's Invisible Man - A Study in Literary Continuity 95
• Notes 105
• Frequencies of Eloquence: The Performance and Composition of Invisible Man 107
• Notes 112
• He Speaks for Whom? Inscription and Reinscription of Women in Invisible Man and the Salt Eaters 115
• Ellison's Short Fiction 127
• Ralph Ellison's "Flying Home" 129
• In Need of Folk: The Alienated Protagonists of Ralph Ellison's Short Fiction 135
• Ellison's "Black Eye": Transforming Pain into Vision 141
• Works Cited 146
• Ellison's Non-Fiction 147
• The Wright Interpretation: Ralph Ellison and the Anxiety of Influence 149
• Works Cited 159
• The Testament of Ralph Ellison 161
• Works Cited 171
• Ellison's Racial Variations on American Themes 173
• Works Cited 189
• Posthumous Assessments 193
• The Oklahoma Kid 195
• Frequencies of Memory: A Eulogy for Ralph Waldo Ellison 199
• Notes 209
• The Achievement of Ralph Ellison 211
• Notes 216
• Juneteenth: Ralph Ellison's National Narrative 217
• Primary Works 227
• Index 239
• About the Editor 245

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