Ellison, Ralph (Vol. 26) - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Bone, Robert. "Ralph Ellison and the Uses of Imagination." Triquarterly, No. 6 (1966): 39-54.

Discusses the influence of jazz, the transcendental and civil rights movements, and black culture on Ellison's literary imagination.

Chaffee, Patricia. "Slippery Ground: Ralph Ellison's Bingo Player." Negro American Literature Forum 10, No. 1 (Spring 1976): 23-4.

Focuses on the repeated use and symbolic importance of the word slippery in "King of the Bingo Game."

Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo. "The Old Order Shall Pass': The Examples of 'Flying Home' and 'Barbados.'" Studies in Short Fiction (Winter 1983): 23-32.

Compares Ellison's "Flying Home" with Paule Marshall's short story "Barbados," concluding that "by not overtly exploring the protest tradition, by not being overly concerned with whites and their attitudes while telling a black story, Ellison and Marshall have managed to create two timeless...

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