Author: Tracy Floreani
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Published: 2024-07-19
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1603296735
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the most important American authors and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Ralph Ellison had a keen and unsentimental understanding of the relationship between race, art, and activism in American life. He contended with other writers of his day in his examination of the entrenched racism in society, and his writing continues to inform national conversations in letters and culture. The essays in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison will help instructors in colleges, high schools, and prisons teach not only the indispensable Invisible Man but also Ellison's short stories, his essays, and the two editions of his second, unfinished novel, Juneteenth and Three Days before the Shooting . . . . In considering Ellison's works in relation to jazz, technology, humor, politics, queerness, and disability, this volume mirrors the breadth of Ellison's own life, which extended from the Jim Crow era through the Black Power movement.
Author: Susan Resneck Parr
Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780873525060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2015-09-24
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1410336026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Keneth Kinnamon
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-11-04
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 1476609128
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.
Author: Steven C. Tracy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-05-20
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0195152506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays in this collection treat the whole of Ralph Ellison's body of work, including his famous novel 'Invisible Man'. The volume confronts Ellison the man of ideas, essayist and short story writer, as well as the material in his posthumously published novel 'Juneteenth'.
Author: Laura Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0195086554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The figure of the mother in literature and the arts has been the subject of much recent critical attention. Whereas many studies have focused on women writers and the maternal, Laura Doyle significantly broadens the field by tracing the racial logic internal to Western representations of maternality at least since Romanticism. She formulates a theory of "racial patriarchy" in which the circumscription of reproduction within racial borders engenders what she calls the "race mother" in literary and cultural narratives. Pairing literary movements not often considered together--Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance--Doyle reveals that this figure haunts the openings of diverse modern novels and initiates their experimental narrative trajectories. Figures such as the slave mother in Invisible Man, Lena Grove in Light in August, Mrs. Dedalus in Ulysses, and Sethe in Beloved, Doyle shows, embody racial, sexual, and metaphysical anxieties which modern authors expose reconfigure, and attempt to surpass. Making use of heterogeneous materials, including kinship studies, phenomenology, and histories of slavery, Bordering on the Body traces the symbolic operations of the "race mother" from Romanticism and nineteenth-century biology to eugenics and twentieth-century fiction. A breakthrough in race and gender theory, a racial reconfiguration of modernism, and a reinterpretation of discourses of nature since Romanticism, the book will engage a wide spectrum of readers in literary and cultural studies.
Author: Ross Posnock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-05-05
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521827812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive introduction to novelist and critic Ralph Ellison and his masterpiece Invisible Man.
Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780241970560
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The invisible man is the unnamed narrator of this impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being he retreats to an underground cell.