Preface by Saul Bellow -- Editor's note -- Introduction by John F. Callahan -- Postcript to the introduction by John F. Callahan -- February -- A congress Jim Crow didn't attend -- Flamenco -- "Tell it like it is, baby" -- And I have no other identity -- Shadow and act : Introduction ; I. The seer and the seen ; II. Sound and the mainstream ; III. The shadow and the act ; Working notes for Invisible Man ; A special message to subscribers ; Testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Harlem and Urban America ; Indivisible man ; James Armistead Lafayette ; Commencement address at the College of William and Mary ; Address to the Harvard College Alumni, class of 1949 ; Haverford statement ; Homage to William L. Dawson ; Alain Locke ; Roscoe Dunee and the American language ; The discipline of American humor ; Presentation to Bernard Malamud of the Gold Medal for Fiction ; Introduction to the thirtieth-anniversary edition of Invisible Man -- Going to the Territory : "A completion of personality": a talk with Ralph Ellison ; On being the target of discrimination ; Bearden ; Notes for class day talk at Columbia University ; Foreword to The Beer Can by the Highway ; Address at the Whiting Foundation.
Summary:
The complete collection of Ellison's reviews, criticism, and interviews is a witty and literate compendium and the only complete edition on the market.
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