Shadow and ACT Contributor(s): Ellison, Ralph (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679760008 ISBN-13: 9780679760009 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Non-classifiable |
Dewey: 810.989 |
LCCN: 95163661 |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.19" W x 7.99" (0.57 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque landscape of Harlem--"the scene and symbol of the Negro's perpetual alienation in the land of his birth." Throughout, he gives us what amounts to an episodic autobiography that traces his formation as a writer as well as the genesis of Invisible Man. |