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    Shadow and act / Ralph Ellison.
    by Ellison, Ralph.
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    Vintage International, 1995.
    Call #:810.9896 E47s
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  • American literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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  • Blacks in literature.
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  • Blacks -- United States -- Intellectual life.
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  • Novelists, Black -- 20th century -- Essays.
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  • Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Essays.
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  • Authors, Black -- 20th century -- Essays.
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  • Authors, American -- 20th century -- Essays.
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  • American essays -- Black authors.
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  • American essays -- 20th century.
    • ISBN: 
    9780679760009 (pbk.)
    0679760008 (pbk.)
    Edition: 
    1st Vintage International ed.
    Description: 
    xxii, 317 p. ; 21 cm.
    Notes: 
    Originally published by Random House, Inc., in 1964.
    Contents: 
    That same pain, that same pleasure : an interview -- Twentieth-century fiction and the black mask of humanity -- Change the joke and slip the yoke -- Stephen Crane and the mainstream of American fiction -- Richard Wright's blues -- Beating that boy -- Brave words for a startling occasion -- The world and the jug -- Hidden name and complex fate -- The art of fiction : an interview -- Living with music -- The golden age, time past -- As the spirit moves Mahalia [Jackson] -- On Bird, Bird-watching, and jazz -- The Charlie Christian story -- Remembering Jimmy [Rushing] -- Blues people -- Some questions and some answers -- The shadow and the act -- The way it is -- Harlem is nowhere -- An American dilemma : a review.
    Summary: 
    "With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America in this collection of essays first published in 1964. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque landscape of Harlem -- "the scene and symbol of the Negro's perpetual alienation in the land of his birth." Throughout, he gives us what amounts to an episodic autobiography that traces his formation as a writer as well as the genesis of Invisible Man. Ellison reveals his idiosyncratic and often contrarian brilliance, his insistence on refuting both black and white stereotypes of what an African American writer should say or be. The result is a book that continues to instruct, delight, and occasionally outrage readers. Novelist and literary critic Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction. Invisible Man won the National Book Award. Ellison taught at several institutions, including Bard College, the University of Chicago, and New York University, where he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities."--Provided by publisher.
    "Shadow and Act contains Ralph Ellison’s real autobiography--in the form of essays and interviews--as distinguished from the symbolic version given in his splendid novel of 1952, Invisible Man""--The New York Review of Books.
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