{"product_id":"ralph-ellison-in-context-hardback-9781108488969","title":"Ralph Ellison in Context (Hardback) 9781108488969","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRalph Ellison in Context\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book sums up longstanding conversations with definitive chapters, and offers ground-breaking essays on a various topics not yet covered.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul Devlin (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108488969, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 December 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e375 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 3 cm, 0.81 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… an ideal introduction to the scholarship surrounding this important writer … Recommended,' J. W. Miller, Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRalph Ellison's Invisible Man is the second-most assigned American novel since 1945 and is one of the most enduring. It is studied by many thousands of high school and college students every year and has been since the 1950s. His landmark essays, with their blend of personal history and cultural theory, have been extraordinarily influential. Ralph Ellison in Context includes authoritative chapters summing up longstanding conversations, while offering groundbreaking essays on a variety of topics not yet covered in the copious critical and biographical literature. It provides fresh perspectives on some of the most important people and places in Ellison's life, and explores where his work and biography cross paths with some of the pressing topics of his time. It includes chapters on Ellison's literary influences and offers a definitive overview of his early writings. It also provides an overview of Ellison's reception and reputation from his death in 1994 through 2020.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Geographical, Institutional, and Interpersonal Contexts: 1. Oklahoma City and 'the territory' Tracy Floreani\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ghosts of Tuskegee Caroline Gebhard\u003cbr\u003e 3. Morteza drexel sprague Matthew McKnight\u003cbr\u003e 4. New York City, 1936-1946 Sara Rutkowski\u003cbr\u003e 5. The U.S. merchant marine Paul Devlin\u003cbr\u003e 6. Fanny Ellison Colleen Eils\u003cbr\u003e 7. Rome, 1955-1957 Sara Marzioli\u003cbr\u003e 8. Postwar New York Andrew Davenport\u003cbr\u003e 9. Albert Murray after 1962 Paul Devlin\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Historical, Political, and Cultural Contexts: 10. Visualizing Black identity in Ellison's fiction Lena Hill\u003cbr\u003e 11. Alternating currents: Electricity, humanism, and resistance Jennifer L. Lieberman\u003cbr\u003e 12. Sounds and signs of Black womanhood Meina Yates-Richard\u003cbr\u003e 13. Masculinity E. Al-Tariq Moore\u003cbr\u003e 14. Aesthetics of democracy Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr\u003cbr\u003e 15. Black power and Black arts Matthew Calihman\u003cbr\u003e 16. Wrestling with the far right: Ellison's representations of fascism Kevin Moore\u003cbr\u003e 17. Southwestern swing Steven Lewis\u003cbr\u003e 18. The self-fashioned American blues identity Kimberly Mack\u003cbr\u003e 19. Ellison's durational view of bebop Michael Germana\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Literary and Critical Contexts: 20. The Harlem renaissance Michael Borshuk\u003cbr\u003e 21. Ellison's early writings Barbara Foley\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Wright school Stephan Kuhl\u003cbr\u003e 23. Literary modernism Tessa Roynon\u003cbr\u003e 24. Beyond raglan's Hero: Ellison's ritualist influences Bryan Crable\u003cbr\u003e 25. Sociology Scott Selisker\u003cbr\u003e 26. The soapbox speech in Ellison's fiction Granville Ganter\u003cbr\u003e 27. Postwar literary aesthetics Jesse McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e 28. Ellison as correspondent Marc C. Conner\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Reception and Reputation: 29. Critical reputation, 1994-2020 Paul Devlin and Robert Butler\u003cbr\u003e 30. Reading invisible man by design Kinohi Nishikawa\u003cbr\u003e 31. Reception of the Hickman novel Benji de la Piedra\u003cbr\u003e 32. Reception of the essay collections Matthew Lambert\u003cbr\u003e 33. Reception in the USSR and former USSR Olga Panova\u003cbr\u003e 34. Biographies of Ellison Timothy Parrish\u003cbr\u003e 35. Ellison and digital humanities J. D. 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