03784nam 2200649 450 991045962090332120200520144314.00-8131-4773-5(CKB)3710000000333947(EBL)1915078(SSID)ssj0001402789(PQKBManifestationID)12520327(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001402789(PQKBWorkID)11364863(PQKB)11053496(MiAaPQ)EBC1915078(OCoLC)607397423(MdBmJHUP)muse43857(Au-PeEL)EBL1915078(CaPaEBR)ebr11011816(CaONFJC)MIL690836(EXLCZ)99371000000033394720150204h20062004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRalph Ellison and the raft of hope a political companion to Invisible man /edited by Lucas E. MorelLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,2006.©20041 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-59554-2 0-8131-2312-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Recovering the Political Artistry of Invisible Man; Chapter 1 Affirming the Principle; Chapter 2 Ralph Ellison on the Tragi-Comedy of Citizenship; Chapter 3 Ralph Ellison's American Democratic Individualism; Chapter 4 Invisible Man and Juneteenth: Ralph Ellison's Literary Pursuit of Racial Justice; Chapter 5 Invisible Man as ""a form of social power"": The Evolution if Ralph Ellison's Politics; Chapter 6 Invisible Man as Literary Analog to Brown v. Board of EducationChapter 7 Ralph Ellison and the Problem if Cultural Authority: The Lessons of Little RockChapter 8 Ralph Ellison and the Invisibility if the Black Intellectual: Historical Reflections on Invisible Man; Chapter 9 The Litany of Things: Sacrament and History in Invisible Man; Chapter 10 Documenting Turbulence: The Dialectics of Chaos in Invisible Man; Epilogue The Lingering Question of Personality and Nation in Invisible Man: ""And could politics ever be an expression of love?""; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; ZAn important new collection of original essays that examine how Ellison's landmark novel, Invisible Man (1952), addresses the social, cultural, political, economic, and racial contradictions of America. Commenting on the significance of Mark Twain's writings, Ralph Ellison wrote that ""a novel could be fashioned as a raft of hope, perception and entertainment that might help keep us afloat as we tried to negotiate the snags and whirlpools that mark our nation's vacillating course toward and away from the democratic ideal."" Ellison believed it was the contradiction between America's ""noble idPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPolitical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismAfrican American men in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureElectronic books.Politics and literatureHistoryPolitical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.African American men in literature.African Americans in literature.813/.54Morel Lucas E.1964-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459620903321Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope2446887UNINA