Spike Lee's Bamboozled and blackface in American culture by Sanderson, Elizabeth L., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Bert Williams: minstrelsy, vaudeville, and silent film -- Oscar Micheaux -- Ralph Ellison -- Michael Ray Charles -- Spike Lee -- The problem of the color line -- Bamboozled's reception -- Symbolic naming and casting practices -- Signifyin' -- Invoking history -- Narrative structures -- Keeping it real: a conclusion…”
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Once You Go Black : Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual. by Reid-Pharr, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Existential Negro; Going Black; 1 The Funny Father's Luck; 2 Ralph Ellison's Blues; 3 Alas Poor Jimmy; Coming Back?…”
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Spike Lee's Bamboozled and blackface in American culture by Sanderson, Elizabeth L., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Bert Williams: minstrelsy, vaudeville, and silent film -- Oscar Micheaux -- Ralph Ellison -- Michael Ray Charles -- Spike Lee -- The problem of the color line -- Bamboozled's reception -- Symbolic naming and casting practices -- Signifyin' -- Invoking history -- Narrative structures -- Keeping it real: a conclusion…”
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Reconstructing individualism : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison by Albrecht, James M.

Table of Contents: “…A tragic-comic ethics in the Emersonian vein: Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison -- "Saying 'yes' and saying 'no'": individualist ethics in Ellison and Burke.…”


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The apocalypse in African-American fiction by Montgomery, Maxine Lavon, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Charles Chesnutt, The marrow of tradition -- Richard Wright, Native son -- Ralph Ellison, Invisible man -- James Baldwin, Go tell it on the mountain -- LeRoi Jones [Imamu Amiri Baraka], The system of Dante's hell -- Toni Morrison, Sula -- Gloria Naylor, The women of Brewster Place.…”


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Out of touch : skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker by Curtin, Maureen Frances, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Dalloway -- Materializing invisibility as x-ray technology : skin matters in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- Skin harvests : automation and chromatism in Thomas Pynchon's "The secret integration" and Gravity's rainbow -- Scratching the sensory surface in Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless.…”
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Interviews with Black writers. by O'Brien, John

Table of Contents: “…Arna Bontemps -- Cyrus Colter -- William Demby -- Owen Dodson -- Ralph Ellison -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Michael Harper -- Robert Hayden -- Clarence Major -- Julian Mayfield -- Ann Petry -- Ishmael Reed -- Alice Walker -- John Wideman -- John Williams -- Charles Wright -- Al Young.…”


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Liberating voices : oral tradition in African American literature by Jones, Gayl

Table of Contents: “…Dunbar and Zora Neale Hurston -- Blues ballad : Jean Toomer's "Karintha" -- Slang, theme, and structure : Loyle Hairston's "The winds of change" -- Jazz/blues structure in Ann Petry's "Solo on the drums" -- Folktale, character, and resolution : Ralph Ellison's "Flying home" -- The freeing of traditional forms : jazz and Amiri Baraka's "The screamers" -- Dialect and narrative : Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- Riddle : Ralph Ellison's Invisible man, or "Change the joke and slip the yoke" -- Blues and spirituals : dramatic and lyrical patterns in Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- Freeing the voice : Ernest Gaines's The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- Motives of folktale : Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.…”


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South of tradition : essays on African American literature by Harris, Trudier

Table of Contents: “…Humor in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Slanting the truth: homosexuality, manhood, and race in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room -- New invisible man: revisiting a nightmare in the 1990s (Brent Wade's Company man and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man) -- Zapping the editor, or, how to tell censors to kiss off without really trying: Zora Neale Hurston's fights with authority figures in Dust tracks on a road -- Architecture as destiny? …”
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American writers. Retrospective supplement II

Table of Contents: “…James Baldwin -- Saul Bellow -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Kate Chopin -- Hart Crane -- Theodore Dreiser -- Ralph Ellison -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Robert Lowell -- Norman Mailer -- Flannery O'Connor -- Sylvia Plath -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Adrienne Rich -- Philip Roth -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Nathanael West.…”
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Novel frames : literature as guide to race, sex, and history in American culture by Urgo, Joseph R.

Table of Contents: “…Contemplating the unthinkable : the myth of racial existence in Ralph Ellison's America -- The invisible candidate : network television news coverage of the Jesse Jackson presidential campaign in 1988 -- Sanctuary and the pornographic nexus -- The body as popular commodity : Glamour and pornography -- Historical movement : what's lost in a A Lost Lady -- The yippies' Overthrow : what everybody knows in America.…”


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Ragged Revolutionaries : the Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature by Mills, Nathaniel, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Communists, writers, and other outsiders -- The ragged proletariat: itineraries for a transient concept -- Richard Wright and the lumpenproletarian desire for revolution -- From Oklahoma City to Tuskegee, from Harlem to Dayton: the sites, levels, and travels of Ralph Ellison's Marxism -- Prostitutes, delinquents, and folk heroes: Margaret Walker's lumpenproletariat -- Conclusion: afterlives of the Depression lumpenproletariat.…”
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The identifying fictions of Toni Morrison : modernist authenticity and postmodern blackness by Duvall, John N. (John Noel), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…-- Invisible name and complex authority in The bluest eye: Morrison's covert letter to Ralph Ellison -- Engendering sexual/textual identity: Sula and the artistic gaze -- Song of Solomon, narrative identity, and the Faulknerian intertext -- Descent in the "House of Chloe": race, rape, and identity in Tar baby -- The authorized Morrison: reflexivity and the historiographic.…”


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Psychology comes to Harlem rethinking the race question in twentieth-century America by Garcia, Jay, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Richard Wright and the "the unconscious machinery of race relations" -- Richard Wright reading: the promise of social psychiatry -- "The problem of race and minorities from below": the wartime cultural criticism of Chester Himes, Horace Cayton, Ralph Ellison and C.L.R. James -- Strange fruit: Lillian Smith and the making of whiteness -- Notes of a native son: James Baldwin in postwar America.…”
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Freud upside down : African American literature and psychoanalytic culture by Ahad, Badia Sahar

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The politics and production of interiority in the Messenger magazine (1922-23) -- The anxiety of birth in Nella Larsen's Quicksand -- Art's imperfect end: race and Gurdjieff in Jean Toomer's Transatlantic -- "A genuine cooperation": Richard Wright's and Ralph Ellison's psychoanalytic conversations -- Maternal anxieties and political desires in Adrienne Kennedy's Dramatic circle -- Racial sincerity and the biracial body in Danzy Senna's Caucasia.…”
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Race and the literary encounter : black literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett by Larkin, Lesley

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Scenes of reading, scenes of racialization: modern and contemporary black literature -- Unbinding the double audience: James Weldon Johnson -- Speakerly reading: Zora Neale Hurston -- Close reading "You": Ralph Ellison -- Erasing precious: Sapphire and Percival Everett -- Reading and being read: Jamaica Kincaid -- Epilogue: Toward a theory and pedagogy of responsible reading: Toni Morrison.…”
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Psychology Comes to Harlem : Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America by Garcia, Jay, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Richard Wright and the "the unconscious machinery of race relations" -- Richard Wright reading: the promise of social psychiatry -- "The problem of race and minorities from below": the wartime cultural criticism of Chester Himes, Horace Cayton, Ralph Ellison and C.L.R. James -- Strange fruit: Lillian Smith and the making of whiteness -- Notes of a native son: James Baldwin in postwar America.…”
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Harlem crossroads : Black writers and the photograph in the twentieth century by Blair, Sara

Table of Contents: “…A riot of images: Harlem and the pursuit of modernity -- Documenting Harlem: images and afterlives -- From Black voices to Black power: Richard Wright and the trial of documentary -- Ralph Ellison, photographer -- Photo-text capital: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and the uses of Harlem -- Dodging and burning: the writer and the image after the Civil Rights Era -- Coda looking back: Toni Morrison and the return to Plato's cave.…”


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Novels for students. Volume 21 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels

Table of Contents: “…Coetzee -- Emma / Jane Austen -- The French lieutenant's woman / John Fowles -- I, Claudius / Robert Graves -- The immoralist / Andre Gide -- Juneteenth / Ralph Ellison -- Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett -- Nausea / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Parable of the sower / Octavia Butler -- Tambourines to glory / Langston Hughes -- The violent bear it away / Flannery O'Connor.…”
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Black skin, blue books : African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945 by Williams, Daniel G.

Table of Contents: “…General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; Black Skin, Blue Books: Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and Victorian Wales; 'In the Wide Margin': Modernism and Ethnic Renaissance in Harlem and Wales; 'They feel me a part of that land': Paul Robeson, Race and the Making of Modern Wales; The Invisible Man's Welsh Routes: Ralph Ellison in Wartime Wales; Conclusion: 1945; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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