Ralph Ellison - Emergence of Genius

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence P. Jackson is an associate professor of African American studies and English at Emory University. He was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship and was Resident Fellow at Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute while completing this book. Klappentext Author, intellectual, and social critic, Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) was a pivo tal figure in American literature and history and arguably the father of African American modernism. Universally acclaimed for his first novel, Invisible Man, a masterpiece of modern fiction, Ellison was recognized with a stunning succession of honors, including the 1953 National Book Award. Despite his literary accomplishments and political activism, however, Ellison has received surprisingly sparse treatment from biographers. Lawrence Jackson's biography of Ellison, the first when it was published in 2002, focuses on the authors early life. Zusammenfassung Enhanced by rare photographs, this work draws from archives, literary correspondence, and interviews with Ellison’s relatives, friends, and associates. It traces the writer’s path from poverty in dust bowl Oklahoma to his rise among the literary elite and examines his previously undocumented involvement in the Socialist Left of the 1930s and 1940s.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Jackson, Lawrence P. Jackson, Lawrence Patrick Jackson
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2007
• EAN: 9780820329932
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2993-2
• No. of pages: 498
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies