LEADER 03690nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910970218903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781299463844 010 $a1299463843 010 $a9780300147148 010 $a0300147147 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300147148 035 $a(CKB)2670000000335016 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24393332 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000883501 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12369741 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000883501 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10924763 035 $a(PQKB)10202469 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000986329 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11628375 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000986329 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10937674 035 $a(PQKB)11412540 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421159 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00071392 035 $a(DE-B1597)485416 035 $a(OCoLC)842892270 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300147148 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421159 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10687911 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL477634 035 $a(OCoLC)923602602 035 $a(Perlego)1089597 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000335016 100 $a20090903d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRalph Ellison in progress $efrom Invisible man to Three days before the shooting-- /$fAdam Bradley 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a9780300147131 311 0 $a0300147139 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction 1993 --$tI. 1982 --$tII. 1970 --$tIII. 1955 --$tIV. 1952 --$tV. 1950 --$tVI. 1945 --$tConclusion 2010 --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aRalph Ellison may be the preeminent African-American author of the twentieth century, though he published only one novel, 1952's Invisible Man. He enjoyed a highly successful career in American letters, publishing two collections of essays, teaching at several colleges and universities, and writing dozens of pieces for newspapers and magazines, yet Ellison never published the second novel he had been composing for more than forty years. A 1967 fire that destroyed some of his work accounts for only a small part of the novel's fate; the rest is revealed in the thousands of pages he left behind after his death in 1994, many of them collected for the first time in the recently published Three Days Before the Shooting . . . .Ralph Ellison in Progress is the first book to survey the expansive geography of Ellison's unfinished novel while re-imaging the more familiar, but often misunderstood, territory of Invisible Man. It works from the premise that understanding Ellison's process of composition imparts important truths not only about the author himself but about race, writing, and American identity. Drawing on thousands of pages of Ellison's journals, typescripts, computer drafts, and handwritten notes, many never before studied, Adam Bradley argues for a shift in scholarly emphasis that moves a greater share of the weight of Ellison's literary legacy to the last forty years of his life and to the novel he left forever in progress. 606 $aAmerican literature 615 0$aAmerican literature. 676 $a813/.54 700 $aBradley$b Adam$01160238 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970218903321 996 $aRalph Ellison in progress$94353317 997 $aUNINA