The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Ralph Ellison
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: African Americans, Racism, Race, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Prejudices or antipathies, Equality, Popular culture
Ralph Ellison published his first novel, Invisible Man (1952), at thirty-eight. When he died in April of 1994, a little more than a month after his eightieth birthday, he had not yet completed his second. In the interim, he became the best known and most influential one-book novelist in American literary history.
The fact that the only novel he published during his lifetime is a masterpiece explains Ellison’s place in American literature, but it does not fully explain the larger role that he played in the debates of postwar American culture or the attention and respect...
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