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Ralph Ellison's Invisible man

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, ©1999.
Series: Modern critical interpretations.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. "Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto".--Atlantic.
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Named Person: Ralph Ellison; Ralph Ellison
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 0791047768 9780791047767
OCLC Number: 38765016
Description: vii, 259 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom --
Ralph Ellison and the uses of imagination / Robert Bone --
Literacy and hibernation: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Robert B. Stepto --
Ralph Ellison and the literary "Ancestor": Dostoevski / Joseph Frank --
Invisible Man as the trickster tale / Philippe Whyte --
Notes on the invisible women in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Claudia Tate --
Ralph Ellison's trueblooded Bildungsroman / Kenneth Burke --
Ralph Waldo Ellison: Anthropology, modernism, and jazz / Berndt Ostendorf --
Ellison's masks and the novel of reality / Thomas Schaub --
Invisible Man, Huck, and Jim / Alan Nadel --
Signifying modernist: Ralph Ellison and the limits of the double consciousness / William Lyne --
Ellison's Invisible Man: Emersonianism revised / Kun Jong Lee --
Novel: Accommodation / Edith Schor --
Chronology.
Series Title: Modern critical interpretations.
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Abstract:

Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. "Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto".--Atlantic.

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