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Shadow and Act


<p>With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel <i>Invisible Man</i>, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, <i>The Birth of a Nation</i> and the Dante-esque landscape of Harlem—“the scene and symbol of the Negro’s perpetual alienation in the land of his birth.” Throughout, he gives us what amounts to an episodic autobiography that traces his formation as a writer as well as the genesis of <i>Invisible Man.<br> </i><br> On every page, Ellison reveals his idiosyncratic and often contrarian brilliance, his insistence on refuting both black and white stereotypes of what an African American writer should say or be. The result is a book that continues to instruct, delight, and occasionally outrage readers.</p>

Author(s): Ralph Ellison  

ISBN 10: 0679760008
ISBN 13: 9780679760009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Publication: March 1995
Edition: ~
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