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Visible Ellison: A Study of Ralph Ellison's Fiction

Visible Ellison: A Study of Ralph Ellison's Fiction

Schor, Edith

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contempo, Book 160

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0313274924
ISBN13: 9780313274923
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Mar 30 1993
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.76 Depth: 8.56
Language: English

Schor traces the development of Ralph Ellison's fiction from the earliest experiments to the major accomplishment of his novel Invisible Man, the mature prose of the Hickman stories and other published portions of his novel-in-progress. The study considers the two-fold obligation Ellison felt in committing himself to literature: to contribute at once to the growth of literature and also to the shaping of the culture as he would like it to be. His stories, read sequentially, reflect his struggle to encompass this aim in his writing. In describing that fragment of American experience he knew best, he learned to use the rich resources of his African-American heritage; from his passionate involvement with his craft came the discovery that, in literature, values turn in their own way, not in the service of politics or ideology.

The early stories mark Ellison's maze-like route that developed the skill, talent, and imagination and personal vision needed to transform experience into art. The novel demonstrates the flowering of his talent, and the Hickman stories add a fine patina. In her discussion of Ellison's work, Professor Schor uses his essays and interviews as well as the insights of other critics to comment directly on his fiction. The study concludes with a bibliography of Ellison's fiction and nonfiction and a selective bibliography of criticism and related sources.

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