The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

<p>Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections <i>Shadow and Act</i> (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and <i>Going to the Territory</i> (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”</p> <p>In this collection of essays and interviews, Ellison writes of literature and folklore, jazz and black culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. This volume includes the critically acclaimed works Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986). </p>

Author(s): Ralph Ellison  

ISBN 10: 0812968263
ISBN 13: 9780812968262
Pages: 860
Format: Paperback
Publication: September 2003
Edition: ~