From within the frame storytelling in African-American fiction by Ashe, Bertram D., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Chesnutt's The conjure woman -- "Ah don't mean to bother wid tellin' 'em nothin'" : Zora Neale Hurston's critique of the storytelling aesthetic in Their eyes were watching God -- Listening to the blues : Ralph Ellison's Trueblood episode in Invisible man -- The best "possible returns" : storytelling and gender relations in James Alan McPherson's "The story of a scar" -- From within the frame : narrative negotiations with the Black aesthetic in Toni Cade Bambara's "My man Bovanne" -- "Would she have believed any of it?" …”
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The death of things : ephemera and the American novel by Wasserman, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Zoned Out: Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, and Urban Infrastructure -- Chapter 4. …”
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Reading America : Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature. by Matthews, Kristin L.

Table of Contents: “…Reading to Outmaneuver: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American Literacy in Cold War America; 4. …”
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American writers classics. Volume II

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald) -- Herzog (Saul Bellow) -- Invisible man (Ralph Ellison) -- Life studies (Robert Lowell) -- McTeague (Frank Norris) -- The member of the wedding (Carson McCullers) -- Mona in the promised land (Gish Jen) -- The naked and the dead (Norman Mailer) -- Sophie's choice (William Styron) -- Tender is the night (F. …”
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Off beat : pluralizing rhythm

Table of Contents: “…The Buena Vista Social Club and the Repeating Island -- Turning the Machine into a Slovenly Machine: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and "I Feel Love" -- Aesthetic Potentials of Rhythm in Hip Hop Music and Culture: Rhythmic Conventions, Skills, and Everyday Life -- Overcome the Pain: Rhythmic Transgression in Heavy Metal Music -- Kairos, the Rhythm of Timing -- Rhythm and Balance in Sculpture and Poetry -- Subversive Rhythms: Postcolonial Prosody and Indo-Anglian Poetry -- AlgoRHYTHMS Everywhere: A Heuristic Approach to Everyday Technologies -- Invisibility's Beat: Ralph Ellison, Rhythm, and Cinema's Blind Field -- The Good Foot: James Brown's Revolutionary Rhythmic Interventions.…”
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Short stories for students. Volume 11 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories

Table of Contents: “…Vol. 11: And of clay are we created / Isabel Allende -- Battle royal or The invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Marriage a la mode / Katherine Mansfield -- Mrs. …”
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Dreaming out loud : African American novelists at work

Table of Contents: “…On Writing Major Novels -- Richard Wright -- From "How 'Bigger' Was Born" (1940) -- Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) -- From "Introduction to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Invisible Man" (1981) -- Margaret Walker (1915-1998) -- From "How I Wrote Jubilee" (1972) -- Ernest J. …”
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Drifting on a read : jazz as a model for writing by Jarrett, Michael, 1953-

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Blackness visible : essays on philosophy and race by Mills, Charles W. (Charles Wade)

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BookMarks : reading in Black and white : a memoir by Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Reading and desire in a room of their own: the booklists of Jessie Fauset and Marita Golden -- A Negro library: the booklists of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright -- On censorship and Tarzan: the booklists of John Hope Franklin, Sonia Sanchez, and Audre Lorde -- A prison library: the booklists of Angela Davis, Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver -- The anchor bar: the booklists of Maya Angelou and James Baldwin -- A proud chestnut: the booklists of James Weldon Johnson and Nikki Giovanni -- The children's room: the booklists of Langston Hughes and Pauli Murray -- My mother's singing: the booklists of C. …”


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Bellow : a biography by Atlas, James

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Cross-cultural visions in African American modernism : from spatial narrative to jazz haiku by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”


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James Baldwin : challenging authors

Table of Contents: “…Canham -- 4.From James' Portrait to Baldwin's Room: Dismantling the Frames of American Manhood / Dwan Henderson Simmons -- 5.Another Country: James Baldwin at "Home" (and) Abroad / Sion Dayson -- 6.Feeling in Radical Consciousness: James Baldwin's Anger as a Critique of Capitalism / Jeffrey Santa Ana -- 7.James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and the Jeremiad Tradition / James Tackach -- 8.James Baldwin: Artist as Activist and the Baldwin/Kennedy Secret Summit of 1963 / Charles Reese -- 9.Uplift Versus Upheaval: The Pedagogical Visions of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin / A. Scott Henderson -- 10.The Agitating Power of Nonviolent Cool in "Going to Meet the Man" / Beazley Kanost…”
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Late modernism : art, culture, and politics in Cold War America by Genter, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison -- The legacy of late modernism.…”
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Regression and apocalypse : studies in North American literary expressionism by Grace, Sherrill, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…'The real soul-sickness' : self-creation and the Expressionist method in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- pt. 4. The Expressionist legacy. 10. …”
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Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction by Leigh, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Miller, Jr -- The ultimate self: death and dying in John Updike and Charles Williams -- The ultimate challenge: apocalyptic liberation and transformation in African-American writing: Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison -- The ultimate way: apocalypse and pluralism in the postcolonial fiction of Salman Rushdie and Shusaku Endo.…”


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The ethnic canon : histories, institutions, and interventions

Table of Contents: “…"Border" studies : the intersection of gender and color / Paula Gunn Allen -- Canon, institutionalization, identity : contradictions for Asian American studies / Lisa Lowe -- The borders of modernity : Américo Paredes's Between two worlds and the Chicano national subject / Ramón Saldívar -- Telling the différance : representations of identity in the discourse of Indianness / Jana Sequoya-Magdaleno -- The politics of carnival and heteroglossia in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man : dialogic criticism and African American literature / Elliott Butler-Evans -- Tropology of hunger : the "miseducation" of Richard Rodriguez / Norma Alarcón -- Calculated musings : Richard Rodríguez's metaphysics of difference / Rosaura Sánchez -- "Sugar sisterhood" : situating the Amy Tan phenomenon / Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong -- In search of Filipino writing : reclaiming whose "America"? …”


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A celebration of Black and African writing

Table of Contents: “…Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.--Reed, J. Léopold Sédar Senghor.--King, A. …”


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Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction by Leigh, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Miller, Jr -- The ultimate self: death and dying in John Updike and Charles Williams -- The ultimate challenge: apocalyptic liberation and transformation in African-American writing: Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison -- The ultimate way: apocalypse and pluralism in the postcolonial fiction of Salman Rushdie and Shusaku Endo.…”
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Black is the color of the cosmos : essays on Afro-American literature and culture, 1942-1981 by Davis, Charles T. (Charles Twitchell), 1918-1981

Table of Contents: “…Theories of Black Literature and Culture -- Black is the Color of the Cosmos -- The American Scholar, the Black Arts, and/or Black Power -- Black Literature and the Critic -- Black Leadership as a Cultural Phenomenon: The Harlem Renaissance -- The Structure of the Afro-American Literary Tradition -- The Slave Narrative: First Major Art Form in an Emerging Black Tradition -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Prose Literature of Racial Defense, 1917-1924: A Preface to the Harlem Renaissance -- On Nathan Irvin Huggin's Harlem Renaissance -- Jean Toomer and the South: Region and Race as Elements within a Literary Imagination -- Robert Hayden's Use of History -- On Wright, Ellison and Baldwin -- Richard Wright: The Artist as Public Figure -- From Experience to Eloquence: Richard Wright's Black Boy as Art -- The Heavenly Voice of the Black American -- The Mixed Heritage of the Modern Black Novel: Ralph Ellison and Friends.…”


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