Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-260) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Steven C. Tracy -- Ralph Ellison, 1913-1994 : a brief biography / Maryemma Graham and Jeffery Dwayne Mack -- Creative and cultural lag : the radical education of Ralph Ellison / William J. Maxwell -- A delicate ear, a retentive memory, and the power to weld the fragments / Steven C. Tracy -- Something warmly, infuriatingly feminine : gender, sexuality, and the work of Ralph Ellison / James Smethurst -- The integrated literary tradition / Alan Nadel -- Ralph Ellison's politics of integration / Lawrence Jackson -- Bibliographical essay : probing the lower frequencies : fifty years of Ellison criticism.
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