Research Catalog

Title

The collected essays of Ralph Ellison / edited and with an introduction by John F. Callahan.

Author

Ellison, Ralph

Publication

• New York : The Modern Library, 2024.
• ©2024

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Details

Additional Authors

• Callahan, John F., 1940-
• Bellow, Saul

Subject

• Ellison, Ralph > Authorship
• African Americans > Social life and customs
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• United States > Civilization > African American influences
• African Americans in literature
• Black author

Genre/Form

• Essays.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / Saul Bellow -- Editor's note -- Introduction / John F. Callahan -- Postcript to the introduction / John F. Callahan -- February -- A congress Jim Crow didn't attend -- Flamenco -- "Tell it like it is, baby" -- And I have no other identity -- Shadow and act. Introduction -- The seer and the seen. That same pain, that same pleasure : an interview -- Twentieth-century fiction and the black mask of humanity -- Change the joke and slip the yoke -- Stephen Crane and the mainstream of American fiction -- Richard Wright's blues -- Beating that boy -- Brave words for a startling occasion -- The world and the jug -- Hidden name and complex fate -- The art of fiction : an interview -- Sound and the mainstream. Living with music -- The golden age, time past -- As the spirit moves Mahalia -- On bird, bird-watching and jazz -- The Charlie Christian story -- Remembering Jimmy -- Blues people -- The shadow and the act. Some questions and some answers -- The shadow and the act -- The way it is -- Harlem is nowhere -- An American dilemma : a review -- Working notes for Invisible Man -- A special message to subscribers -- Testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Harlem and Urban America -- Indivisible man -- James Armistead Lafayette -- Commencement address at the College of William and Mary -- Address to the Harvard College Alumni, class of 1949 -- Haverford statement -- Homage to William L. Dawson -- Alain Locke -- Roscoe Dunjee and the American language -- The discipline of American humor -- Presentation to Bernard Malamud of the Gold Medal for Fiction -- Introduction to the thirtieth-anniversary edition of Invisible Man -- Going to the Territory. The little man at Chehaw Station -- On initiation rites and power : a lecture at West Point -- What these children are like -- The myth of the flawed white southerner -- If the twain shall meet -- What America would be like without Blacks -- Portrait of Inman Page : a dedication speech -- Going to the territory -- An extravagance of laughter -- Remembering Richard Wright -- Homage to Duke Ellington on his birthday -- The art of Romare Bearden -- Society, morality and the novel -- "A very stern discipline" -- The novel as a function of American democracy -- Perspective of literature -- "A completion of personality": a talk with Ralph Ellison -- On being the target of discrimination -- Bearden -- Notes for class day talk at Columbia University -- Foreword to The Beer Can by the Highway -- Address at the Whiting Foundation.

Call Number

Sc E 24-878

ISBN

• 9780593730065
• 0593730062

LCCN

2024440186

OCLC

1422580836

Author

Ellison, Ralph, author.

Title

The collected essays of Ralph Ellison / edited and with an introduction by John F. Callahan.

Publisher

New York : The Modern Library, 2024.

Copyright Date

©2024

Edition

Revised and updated.

Modern Library paperback edition.

Description

xxxiii, 771 pages ; 24 cm

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary

The complete collection of Ellison's reviews, criticism, and interviews is a witty and literate compendium and the only complete edition on the market.

Summary

"Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this definitive volume 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 culture, and the nature and quality of lives that Black Americans lead. With newly discovered essays and speeches, The Collected Essays reveals a more vulnerable, intimate side of Ellison than what we've previously seen. 'Raph Ellison,' wrote Stanley Crouch, 'reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.'" -- Publisher's description.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Callahan, John F., 1940- editor, writer of introduction.

Bellow, Saul, writer of preface.

Research Call Number

Sc E 24-878