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Author:

Ellison, Ralph.

Title:

Shadow and act.

Publisher:

Random House

Copyright Date:

1964

Description:

xxii, 317 p. 22 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--African influences.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Écrivains noirs.
Littérature américaine--Auteurs noirs américains.

Contents:

3. An American dilemma: a review. The same pain, the same pleasure: an interview -- Twentieth-century fiction and the black mask of humanity -- Change the joke and slip the yoke -- Stephen Crane and the mainstream of American fiction -- Richard Wright's blues -- Beating that boy -- Brave words for a startling occasion -- The world and the jug -- Hidden name and complex fate -- The art of fiction: an interview -- 2. Sound and the mainstream: Living with music -- The golden age, time past -- As the spirit moves Mahalia -- On bird, bird-watching, and jazz -- The Charlie Christian story -- Remembering Jimmy -- Blues people -- 3. The shadow and the act: Some questions and some answers -- The shadow and the act -- The way it is -- Harlem is nowhere -- An American dilemma: a review.

LCCN:

64018928

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

7YSX475 -- Galva-Holstein High School (Holstein)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)