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Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as "a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race," and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and...

A collection of critical essays about Wright's life and works, including material about his Communist Party membership and his decision to live in Paris.

"In Shadowing Ralph Ellision, John Wright traces Ellison's intellectual and aesthetic development and the evolution of his cultural philosophy throughout his long career. The book explores Ellison's published fiction, his criticism and correspondence, and his passionate exchanges with - and impact on - other literary intellectuals during the Cold War 1950s and during the culture wars of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s."--Jacket.

Introductrion : Ellison's joking / Ross Posnock -- Ralph Ellison's invented life : a meeting with the ancestors / Lawrence Jackson -- Ellison and the black church : the gospel according to Ralph / Laura Saunders -- Ellison, photography, and the origins of invisibility / Sara Blair -- Ralph Ellison's music lessons / Paul Allen Anderson -- Ralph Ellison's constitutional faith / Gregg Crane -- Ralph Ellison and the politics of melancholia / Anne Anlin...

Nadel argues that Ellison used textual literary allusions in "Invisible Man" as devices to address the issues of marginalizing and decentering of the African American experience --"absence" and "invisibility"--In previous American literature.

"Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin's death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou's ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin's life in context within the greater African diaspora. Beginning with a chance encounter with a beggar wandering along a Santa Monica beach-a man whose ragged clothes and unsteady gait remind the author of a character out of one of James Baldwin's novels- Mabanckou uses his own...