Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion provides the most up-to-date introduction to this influential and significant novelist and critic and to his masterpiece. It features newly commissioned essays, a chronology and a guide to further reading. The essays recover the compelling urgency and relevance of Ellison's political and artistic vision. Students and scholars of American and African-American literature will find this work invaluable.
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- Collected Essays and Reviews (Modern reprints) [Facsimile] by William James on 8 pages
- Native Son by Richard A. Wright on 7 pages
- Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual by Ross Posnock on 4 pages
- American Literature (Widener Library Shelflist, Nos. 26 and 27) by Richard De Gennard on page 117, page 155, and page 186
- My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics) by Frederick Douglass on page 114, page 118, and page 120
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- The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Rachel Jacoff in Front Matter
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