"The ... letters of the ... author of Invisible Man [offer] insights into the riddle of American identity, the writer's craft, and his own life and work"--

– Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights – Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world –…

Traces Ralph Ellison’s intellectual and aesthetic development and the evolution of his cultural philosophy throughout his long career. The book explores Ellison’s published fiction, his criticism and correspondence, and his…

Illuminates the mystery that is Ralph Ellison, the author of one complex, important novel who failed to complete his second; a black intellectual who remained notably reticent on political issues…

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist elucidates the theory of temporality that binds Ellison’s oeuvre together, and explains why race is a matter of time. Germana offers a wholesale reinterpretation of Ellison’s…

Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of African American author Ralph Ellison, who offers readers and students…

These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man approach the elegance of Chekhov (Washington Post) and provide early explorations of (Ellison’s) lifelong fascination with the ‘complex fate’ and…

In 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…