Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope : a political companion to Invisible man / edited by Lucas E. Morel.

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Morel, Lucas E, 1964-

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TextPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780813147734
0813147735

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope.DDC classification:

813/.54 22

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PS3555.L625 I5356 2004

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Contents:

Recovering the political artistry of Invisible man / Lucas E. Morel -- Affirming the principle / James Seaton -- Ralph Ellison on the tragi-comedy of citizenship / Danielle Allen -- Ralph Ellison's American democratic individualism / Lucas E. Morel -- Invisible man and Juneteenth: Ralph Ellison's literary pursuit of racial justice / Thomas S. Engeman -- Invisible man as 'a form of social power': the evolution of Ralph Ellison's politics / William R. Nash -- Invisible man as literary analog to Brown v. Board of education / Alfred L. Brophy -- Ralph Ellison and the problem of cultural authority: the lessons of Little Rock / Kenneth W. Warren -- Ralph Ellison and the invisibility of the black intellectual: historical reflections on Invisible man / Charles 'Pete' Banner-Haley -- The litany of things: sacrament and history in Invisible man / Marc C. Conner -- Documenting turbulence: the dialectics of chaos in Invisible man / Herman Beavers -- The lingering question of personality and nation in Invisible man: 'and could politics ever be an expression of love?' / John F. Callahan.

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Review: "Ellison's relevance as a political novelist, essayist, and commentator did not end with the publication of Invisible Man or as the civil rights movement waned. This collection of essays demonstrates that Invisible Man deserves its place in the pantheon of great American novels and that Ellison should be regarded as an essential framer of recent American political thought. His conception of America's basic democratic project - strangers, bound together by common citizenship, crafting a vision for America's future and forging consensus on the path toward that goal - is especially valid in the new century as the nation struggles with divisions and contradictions unimagined during Ellison's lifetime." "The essays in Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope probe the political lessons of the landmark novel Invisible Man, in which Ellision reflects on the sacred ideals that set the American republic into motion."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-243) and index.

"Ellison's relevance as a political novelist, essayist, and commentator did not end with the publication of Invisible Man or as the civil rights movement waned. This collection of essays demonstrates that Invisible Man deserves its place in the pantheon of great American novels and that Ellison should be regarded as an essential framer of recent American political thought. His conception of America's basic democratic project - strangers, bound together by common citizenship, crafting a vision for America's future and forging consensus on the path toward that goal - is especially valid in the new century as the nation struggles with divisions and contradictions unimagined during Ellison's lifetime." "The essays in Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope probe the political lessons of the landmark novel Invisible Man, in which Ellision reflects on the sacred ideals that set the American republic into motion."--Jacket

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