The Cambridge companion to Ralph Ellison / edited by Ross Posnock.

Other author Posnock, Ross.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Ralph Ellison
SeriesCambridge companions to literature
Cambridge companions to literature. ^A326514
Contents Introduction : 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 Cheng -- Invisible Ellison : the fight to be a Negro leader / Tim Parrish -- Ellison's experimental attitude and the technologies of illumination / John S. Wright -- Female iconography in Invisible man / Shelly Eversley -- Chaos not quite controlled : Ellison's uncompleted transit to Juneteenth / Kenneth W. Warren -- Ralph Ellison, Hannah Arendt, and the meaning of politics / Ross Posnock -- Dry bones / Eric J. Sundquist.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index.
LCCN 2005541265
ISBN0521827817
ISBN0521535069 (pbk.)