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Speaking for you : the vision of Ralph Ellison / edited by Kimberly W. Benston

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Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, [2004?]
Physical Description
x, 438 pages ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Benston, Kimberly W.

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Contents
Introduction : The masks of Ralph Ellison / Kimberly W. Benston -- Part I. Going to the territory : biography, geography, topography -- Growing up Black in frontier Oklahoma ... from an Ellison perspective / Hollie West -- Indivisible man / James Alan McPherson -- A meditation on the life and times of Ralph Waldo Ellison (poems) / Michael S. Harper -- Part II. Slipping the yoke : the "frequencies" of Shadow and act -- Travels with Ralph Ellison through time and thought / Hollie West -- Ellison's essays / R.W.B. Lewis -- The testament of Ralph Ellison / John M. Reilly -- Shadowing Ellison / John Wright -- Part III. The art of ambiguity : myth, ideology, aesthetics -- Through a writer's eyes / Hollie West -- Ralph Ellison and Afro-American folk and cultural tradition / George E. Kent -- Ellison's Zoot Suit / Larry Neal -- Chaos, complexity, and possibility : the historical frequencies of Ralph Waldo Ellison / John F. Callahan -- Ellison's "usable past" : toward a theory of myth / Hortense Spillers -- Fiction and ideas : a note on Ellison's "Black mask of humanity" / Wilson Harris -- Notes on the invisible women in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man / Claudia Tate -- Improvising America : Ralph Ellison and the paradox of form / C.W.E. Bigsby -- Part IV. Choosing ancestors : the "possibilities" of literary tradition -- Remembering Richard Wright / Ralph Ellison -- From Native son to Invisible man : some notes on Ralph Ellison's evolution in the 1950s / Michel Fabre -- The Wright interpretation : Ralph Ellison and the anxiety of influence / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr. -- Ralph Ellison and a literary "ancestor" : Dostoevski / Joseph Frank -- The rules of magic : Hemingway as Ellison's "ancestor" / Robert G. O'Meally -- The mixed heritage of the modern Black novel : Ralph Ellison and friends / Charles T. Davis -- Part V. Speaking for you : reinterpretations of Invisible man -- "A completion of personality" : a talk with Ralph Ellison / John Hersey -- Luminosity from the lower frequencies / Leon Forrest -- To move without moving : an analysis of creativity and commerce in Ralph Ellison's Trueblood episode / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Ralph Ellison's trueblooded Bildungsroman / Kenneth Burke -- Literacy and hibernation : Ralph Ellison's Invisible man / Robert B. Stepto -- Spokesman for invisibility / Thomas R. Whitaker -- Fingering the jagged grains (poem) / Melvin Dixon -- Part VI. Bibliography, contributors, index -- The writings of Ralph Ellison / Robert G. O'Meally.
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ISBN
0882580051
Note
Reprint. Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1990.
Includes index.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-419).
Action Note
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