The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
By (Author) Ralph Ellison
Edited by John F. Callahan
Preface by Saul Bellow
Random House USA Inc
Modern Library Inc
15th September 2003
9th September 2003
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Biography and non-fiction prose
814.52
Physical Properties
Paperback
912
Width 133mm, Height 203mm, Spine 41mm
624g
Description
A comprehensive edition of Ellison's criticism, reviews and interviews includes the celebrated collections Shadow and Act and Going to the Territor, along with previosly uncollected and newly discovered work.The only complete edition of Ellison's essays on the market wonderfully explores his views on literature and folklore, jazz and black culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead.
Reviews
"[Ellison's] essays never fail to be elegantly written, beautifully composed, and intelletually sophisticated." Los Angeles Times
Author Bio
John F. Callahan is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College. He edited Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth and co-edited, with Albert Murray, the Modern Library edition of Trading Twelves. Saul Bellow, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has written thirteen novels and numerous novellas, stories, and essays.
