The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521827817 ISBN 13: 9780521827812

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Ralph Ellison's classic 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important and controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion provides an introduction to this influential and significant novelist and critic and to his masterpiece. It features essays by leading scholars, a chronology and a guide to further reading. The essays reveal alternative dimensions of Ellison's art radiating out from Invisible Man into other domains - technology, political theory, law, photography, music, religion - and recover the compelling urgency and relevance of Ellison's political and artistic vision. Since Ellison's death his published oeuvre has been expanded by several major volumes - his collected essays, the fragment of a novel, Juneteenth (1999), letters and short stories - examined here in the context of his life and work. Students and scholars of Ellison and of American and African-American literature will find this an invaluable and accessible guide.

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About the Author

Ross Posnock is Professor of English at New York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521827817
• ISBN 13: 9780521827812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Posnock Ross