The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
by Ellison, Ralph Callahan, John F.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-09-09
Publisher(s): Modern Library
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Summary
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 collectionsShadow and Act(1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as "a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race," andGoing to the Territory(1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. "Ralph Ellison," wrote Stanley Crouch, "reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans."
Author Biography
<b>John F. Callahan</b> is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College. He edited Ralph Ellison’s <i>Juneteenth</i> and co-edited, with Albert Murray, the Modern Library edition of <i>Trading Twelves</i>.<br><br><b>Saul Bellow</b>, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has written thirteen novels and numerous novellas, stories, and essays.
Table of Contents
| Biographical Note | v | ||||
| Acknowledgments | vii | ||||
| Preface by Saul Bellow | ix | ||||
| Introduction by John F. Callahan | xvii | ||||
| February | 1 | (4) | |||
| A Congress Jim Crow Didn't Attend | 5 | (14) | |||
| Flamenco | 19 | (8) | |||
| "Tell It Like It Is, Baby" | 27 | (20) | |||
| SHADOW AND ACT | 47 | (294) | |||
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310 | (10) | |||
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320 | (8) | |||
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328 | (13) | |||
| Working Notes for Invisible Man | 341 | (10) | |||
| A Special Message to Subscribers | 351 | (6) | |||
| Indivisible Man | 357 | (44) | |||
| James Armistead Lafayette | 401 | (8) | |||
| Commencement Address at the College of William and Mary | 409 | (10) | |||
| Address to the Harvard College Alumni, Class of 1949 | 419 | (12) | |||
| Haverford Statement | 431 | (6) | |||
| Homage to William L. Dawson | 437 | (6) | |||
| Alain Locke | 443 | (10) | |||
| Roscoe Dunjee and the American Language | 453 | (12) | |||
| Presentation to Bernard Malamud of the Gold Medal for Fiction | 465 | (8) | |||
| Introduction to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Invisible Man | 473 | (20) | |||
| GOING TO THE TERRITORY | |||||
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493 | (31) | |||
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524 | (22) | |||
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546 | (10) | |||
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556 | (11) | |||
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567 | (14) | |||
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663 | (17) | |||
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698 | (32) | |||
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730 | (29) | |||
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759 | (11) | |||
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770 | (17) | |||
| "A Completion of Personality": A Talk with Ralph Ellison | 787 | (36) | |||
| On Being the Target of Discrimination | 823 | (10) | |||
| Bearden | 833 | (8) | |||
| Notes for Class Day Talk at Columbia University | 841 | (6) | |||
| Foreword to The Beer Can by the Highway | 847 | (6) | |||
| Address at the Whiting Foundation | 853 |
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