The New Territory : Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century /

"Ralph Ellison once said, "We're only a partially achieved nation." In The New Territory, scholars show how clearly Ellison foresaw and articulated both the challenges and the possibilities of America in the twenty-first century. Indeed, Ellison in these new essays appears more a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Morel, Lucas E., 1964- (Editor ), Conner, Marc C., 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ellison, Ralph > 1914-1994
Ellison, Ralph.
Ellison, Ralph > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses.
Race relations in literature.
Literature and society.
African Americans in literature.
Relations raciales dans la litterature > Congres.
Noirs americains dans la litterature > Congres.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siecle > Congres.
Race relations in literature > Congresses.
African Americans in literature > Congresses.
Literature and society > United States > History > 21st century > Congresses.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Congresses.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The new territory: Ralph Ellison and the twenty-first century / Marc C. Conner and Lucas E. Morel
  • Invisible man sixty years later: revisiting Ellison's masterpiece in the twenty-first century. Invisible man and the politics of love / Robert Butler
  • The body and Invisible man: Ralph Ellison's novel in twenty-first-century performance and public spaces / Patrice Rankine
  • The noisy lostness: oppositionality and acousmatic subjectivity in Invisible man / Herman Beavers
  • Invisible man in the age of Obama: Ellison on (color) blindness, visibility, and the hopes for a postracial America / Bryan Crable
  • Three days before the shooting: Ellison's ongoing epic of America. Ralph Ellison in his labyrinth / Eric J. Sundquist
  • The politics of fatherhood in Three days before the shooting / Lena Hill
  • Father Abraham: Ellison's Agon with the fathers in Three days before the shooting / Marc C. Conner
  • Ralph Ellison's Three days: the aesthetics of political change / Timothy Parrish
  • Ralph Ellison's Three days before the shooting a and the implicit morality of form / Grant Shreve
  • Ralph Ellison and American culture: Ellison past, present, and future. "In a strange country": the challenge of American inclusion / Lucas E. Morel
  • Invisible man's grandfather and the American dream / Steven D. Ealy
  • Mourning and melancholy: explaining the Ellison animus / Ross Posnock
  • "How many lightbulbs does it take to screw in a blues singer?": the French Revolution, King Louis Armstrong, and the futuristic jungleism of jazz / Steven C. Tracy
  • Conclusion: Ralph Ellison in the twenty-first century. "That pause for contemplation": a centennial meditation on Ralph Ellison / John Callahan.

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