LEADER 02691nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910456431603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-163-0 035 $a(CKB)111004365704532 035 $a(EBL)836710 035 $a(OCoLC)45729573 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000183449 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11167819 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183449 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10194379 035 $a(PQKB)10173351 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000591285 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12185693 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000591285 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10696663 035 $a(PQKB)11600843 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC836710 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8973 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL836710 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10494019 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004365704532 100 $a19870819d1988 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInvisible criticism$b[electronic resource] $eRalph Ellison and the American canon /$fby Alan Nadel 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d1988 215 $a1 online resource (199 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-87745-190-7 311 $a0-87745-321-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Origins of Invisibility; 2. Translating Tradition; 3. Tod Clifton: Spiritual and Carnal; 4. Invisible Man in the Golden Day; 5. Invisible Criticism: Melville and Emerson Revised; 6. Invisible Man, Huck, and Jim; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index 330 $aIn 1952 Ralph Ellison won the National Book Award for his Kafkaesque and claustrophobic novel about the life of a nameless young black man in New York City. Although Invisible Man has remained the only novel that Ellison published in his lifetime, it is generally regarded as one of the most important works of fiction in our century.This new reading of a classic work examines Ellison's relation to and critique of the American literary canon by demonstrating that the pattern of allusions in Invisible Man forms a literary-critical subtext which challenges the a 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aCanon (Literature) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aCanon (Literature) 676 $a813/.54 700 $aNadel$b Alan$f1947-$0886935 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456431603321 996 $aInvisible criticism$92452289 997 $aUNINA