Synopses & Reviews
A comprehensive introduction to novelist and critic Ralph Ellison and his masterpiece Invisible Man.
About the Author
Ross Posnock is Professor of English at New York University.
Table of Contents
Chronology; Introduction: Ellison's joking Ross Posnock; 1. Ralph Ellison's invented life: a meeting with ancestors Lawrence Jackson; 2. Ellison and the black Church: the gospel according to Ralph Laura Saunders; 3. Ellison, photography, and the origins of invisibility Sara Blair; 4. Ralph Ellison's music lessons Paul Allen Anderson; 5. Ralph Ellison's constitutional faith Gregg Crane; 6. Ralph Ellison and the politics of melancholia Anne Anlin Cheng; 7. Invisible Ellison: the fight to be a negro leader Tim Parrish; 8. Ellison's experimental attitude and the technologies of illumination John S. Wright; 9. Female iconography in The Invisible Man Shelly Eversley; 10. Chaos not quite controlled: Ellison's uncompleted transit to Juneteenth Kenneth W. Warren; 11. Ralph Ellison, Hannah Arendt, and the meaning of politics Ross Posnock; 12. Dry Bones Eric Sundquist; Select bibliography and suggestions for further reading.