Juneteenth (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ralph Ellison
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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
Ellison began work on his second novel in 1954, but a house fire in November, 1967, destroyed much of his manuscript. It was an event about which he was particularly tight-lipped until 1994, when he publicly discussed the loss of his manuscript with David Remnick: “There was, of course, a traumatic event involved with the book. We lost a summer house and, with it, a good part of the novel. It wasn’t the entire manuscript, but it was over three hundred and sixty pages. There was no copy.” Ellison spent thirty years re-creating and polishing his manuscript, unable to finalize it...
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