Juneteenth (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ralph Ellison
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1955, with numerous flashbacks to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: A Washington, D.C., hospital, Oklahoma, and the South
- Principal Characters: Adam Sunraider/Bliss Hickman, Alonzo Hickman
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, Racism, Race, Novelists, Politicians, Assassination, Clergy, Filmmaking or filmmakers
- Locales: South (U.S.), Washington, D.C., Oklahoma
Editing an author posthumously is a thankless task. The editor who selects too freely from the best versions of a writer’s several drafts (as the editor of a living writer might do) will be accused of synthesizing a text the writer never wrote. Scholars are often the worst culprits. Long after the authors’ deaths, scholars of Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane tried to create “definitive” editions of Sister Carrie (1900) and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) by piecing together the material that they believed the authors probably would have preferred to publish....
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