02541nam 2200505 450 991045797550332120210209112352.00-19-972640-X0-19-530289-31-60256-738-7(CKB)1000000000363084(MiAaPQ)EBC5746852(MiAaPQ)EBC279478(Au-PeEL)EBL279478(OCoLC)707917807(EXLCZ)99100000000036308420190716d2004 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRalph Ellison's Invisible man a casebook /edited by John F. CallahanOxford :Oxford University Press,[2004]©20041 online resource (xiv, 352 pages)0-19-514536-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352).Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Prologue: Ralph Ellison on Invisible Man -- Before Publication -- After Publication -- Part II: Critical Essays on Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison's Trueblooded Bildungsroman -- Ellison's Zoot Suit -- Ellison's Vision of Communitas -- Ralph Ellison, Race, and American Culture -- The Rules of Magic: Hemingway as Ellison's "Ancestor" -- The Meaning of Narration in Invisible Man -- The Conscious Hero and the Rites of Man: Ellison's War -- Notes on the Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Luminosity from the Lower Frequencies -- Ellison's Invisible Man -- Part III: Epilogue -- On Initiation Rites and Power: A Lecture at West Point -- Selected Bibliography.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 there can be no last word on "Invisible Man". The essays share a respect for the novel's fluidity and for every reader's encounter with its narrator, story, and meanings.African American men in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureElectronic books.African American men in literature.African Americans in literature.813.54Ellison Ralph451289Callahan John F.1940-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457975503321Ralph Ellison's Invisible man2448389UNINA