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    Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison

    Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the ‘invisible man’ retreats into an underground cell, where the author smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts…

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    Juneteenth

    Ralph Ellison,John Callahan

    A work of staggering virtuosity ( Newsday ), Ralph Ellison’s long-awaited second novel tells the brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise story of an orphan who grows up to be a…

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    Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison

    The story of a man invisible ‘simply because people refuse to see me’.

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    Ralph Ellison: Photographer

    Ralph Ellison (1913-94) is a foremost figure in American literature, hailed for his seminal novel Invisible Man (1952), a breakthrough representation of the American experience and Black everyday life. Lesser…

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    The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison

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

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    The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American…

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    Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison

    "Gives guidance on the biographical, historical, literary, and musicological texts on Ralph Ellison. Discusses teaching Ellison's published works, posthumous works, and letters in college, high school, and prison classrooms. Essays…

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    Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison

    "Gives guidance on the biographical, historical, literary, and musicological texts on Ralph Ellison. Discusses teaching Ellison's published works, posthumous works, and letters in college, high school, and prison classrooms. Essays…

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    Ralph Ellison

    Professor Arnold Rampersad

    On the strength of just one novel, as well as a series of lasting essays in cultural criticism, Ellison stands as one of the major literary figures of the last…

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    Ralph Ellison

    Mark Busby

    Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

    Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…

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    Ralph Ellison in Context

    This book provides fresh perspectives on some of the most important people and places in Ellison’s life, and explores where his work and biography cross paths with some of the…

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    The Craft of Ralph Ellison

    Robert G O'Meally (University of Virginia)

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    Ralph Ellison and Cinema

    Sam Halliday

    The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913-1994).

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    Conversations with Ralph Ellison

    Interviews with the author of Invisible Man and many other works

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    Shadowing Ralph Ellison

    John S. Wright

    Traces Ralph Ellison’s intellectual and aesthetic development and the evolution of his cultural philosophy throughout his long career. The book explores Ellison’s published fiction, his criticism and correspondence, and his…

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    Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America

    Timothy Parrish

    Drawing on Ralph Ellison’s recently published ‘unfinished’ novel, newly released archival materials, and unpublished correspondence, Parrish provides a sustained reconsideration of the writer’s crucial friendships with Richard Wright, Robert Penn…

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    The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison

    Robert J. Butler

    Ralph Ellison’s literary career began in 1937 with the publication of his review of Waters Edward Turpin’s These Low Grounds. Over the next 15 years he published 10 short stories…

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    Ralph Ellison and the Politics of the Novel

    William H. Rice

    Illuminates the mystery that is Ralph Ellison, the author of one complex, important novel who failed to complete his second; a black intellectual who remained notably reticent on political issues…

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    Ralph Ellison and the Politics of the Novel

    William H. Rice

    Illuminates the mystery that is Ralph Ellison, the author of one complex, important novel who failed to complete his second; a black intellectual who remained notably reticent on political issues…

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    Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man

    Gerald Lyn Early

    introduces the life and writings of authors whose works forever changed the time period in which they lived, and whose writing continues to be a dynamic part of the literary…

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    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important and controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion provides an introduction…

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    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important and controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion provides an introduction…

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    Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius

    Lawrence P. Jackson

    A biography of Ellison that focuses on the author’s early life. Containing photographs, it draws from archives, literary correspondence, and interviews with Ellison’s relatives, friends, and associates. It traces the…

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    Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology

    M. Cooper Harriss

    Examines the religious dimensions of Ralph Ellison’s concept of race

    Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man provides an unforgettable metaphor for what it means to be disregarded in society. While…

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    Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist

    Michael Germana (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Miami)

    Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist elucidates the theory of temporality that binds Ellison’s oeuvre together, and explains why race is a matter of time. Germana offers a wholesale reinterpretation of Ellison’s…

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    A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison

    This collection of essays treat Ralph Ellison’s body of work, including his novel ‘The Invisible Man’. It confronts Ellison the man of ideas, essayist, and short story writer, as well…

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    A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison

    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…

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    The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison

    A complete collection of essays, reviews, interviews, and criticism by the acclaimed author of Invisible Man includes the collections Shadow and Act and Going to the Territory, along with newly…

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    Visible Ellison: A Study of Ralph Ellison’s Fiction

    Edith Schor

    Schor traces the development of Ralph Ellison’s fiction from the earliest experiments to the major accomplishment of his novel Invisible Man, the mature prose of the Hickman stories and other…

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    Race in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    A selection of essays discusses the themes of Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel.

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    Race in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    A selection of essays discusses the themes of Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel.

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    Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Casebook

    Offering students and scholars a variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novel and the man who created it, this text takes the position that…

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    The Black Ball

    Ralph Ellison

    Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

    ‘If he only knew what it…

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    Shadow and Act

    Ralph Ellison

    With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music…

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    Flying Home: and Other Stories

    Ralph Ellison

    These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man approach the elegance of Chekhov (Washington Post) and provide early explorations of (Ellison’s) lifelong fascination with the ‘complex fate’ and…

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    Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison

    An African-American man’s search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.

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    Ralph Ellison: The Next Fifty Years

    R. A. Judy,Jonathan Arac

    Essays on Ellison’s lesser-known non-fiction writings.

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    Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Reference Guide

    Michael D. Hill,Lena M. Hill

    Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is one of the most widely read works of African American literature. Included are chapters on the creation of the novel, its plot, its historical and…

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    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    Cengage Learning Gale

    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…

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    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison’s Battle Royal

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison’s Battle Royal, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

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    Annandale Blues: A Journey in Ralph Ellison’s America

    Guy Ducornet

    Ducornet’s adventures in America offer a unique perspective on American life; his exotic role as Frenchman in the US allowed him to become an ‘invisible man’ of another sort. While…

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    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison’s Shadow and Act

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison’s Shadow and Act, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…

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    Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide

    Bryan Crable

    By using Ellison’s nonfiction and Burke’s rhetorical theory to articulate a new vocabulary of race, the author concludes not with a simplistic healing of the divide but with a challenge…

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    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison’s King of the Bingo Game

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison’s King of the Bingo Game, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…

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    In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy

    Sterling Lecater Bland Jr.

    Offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonances in twenty-first-century American culture. Bland charts Ellison’s evolving attitudes on several…

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    Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem

    Michal Raz-Russo,Douglas Druick,Douglas Druick,Michal Raz-Russo

    By the mid-1940s, Gordon Parks was a successful photographer and Ralph Ellison began work on his acclaimed novel Invisible Man (1952). This publication focuses on Parks’ and Ellison’s collaboration on…

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    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…

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    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…

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