Wrestling With the Left - The Making of Ralph Ellison''s Invisible Man

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Foley Klappentext A biography of the creation of THE INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison. Zusammenfassung An in-depth analysis of the composition of Invisible Man and Ralph Ellisons move away from the radical left during his writing of the novel between 1945 and 1952. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Note on the Text xi Introduction: Reading Forward to Invisible Man 1 Part I. 1. Forming a Politics 27 2. Developing an Aesthetic 69 3. Writing from the Left 109 Part II. 4. Living Jim Crow 153 5. Becoming Proletarian 187 6. Finding Brotherhood 237 7. Recognizing Necessity 281 8. Beginning and Ending 325 Notes 351 Selected Bibliography 429 Index 433

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Foley, Barbara Foley
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.2010
• EAN: 9780822348177
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4817-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Possible Futures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies