Invisible Man
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Class Resources
- Please check out the selections from Ellison's Shadow and Act on our Blackboard site.
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General Online Resources
Chapter summary; links to reviews; resources on America in the 1950s
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Related Literary Terms
(to look up in The Bedford Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms):
Allegory
Allusion
Bildungsroman
Folklore
Motif
Narrator
Novel
Point of View
Surrealism
Symbol
Theme
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Critical Terms
(to look up in The Bedford Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms):
Race (and literary studies)
Harlem Renaissance
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Cultural and Historical Contexts to Explore
(Research on the Web and in Library Databases)
Ralph Ellison - General Biography
Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute
W.E.B. DuBois and “double consciousness”
Socialist Movements in New York
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Selected Bibliography
- Selected essays and interviews from Shadow and Act (on Blackboard, under "Readings")
- On reserve in the Paley library:
- Butler, Robert J., ed. The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison. Westport: Greenwood P, 2000.
- Callahan, John F., ed. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Ellison, Ralph. Shadow and act. New York: Vintage International, 1995.
- Ellison, Ralph. Going to the territory. New York: Random House, 1986.
- Graham, Maryemma and Singh, Amritjit, eds. Conversations with Ralph Ellison. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
- Posnock, Ross, ed. The Cambridge companion to Ralph Ellison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
