The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
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Abstract
The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century offers fifteen original essays that seek to examine and re-examine Ellison’s life and work in the context of their meanings for our own age, the early 21st century, the age of Obama and of a nation that is simultaneously post-racial and all-too-racial. Following a careful introduction that situates Ellison’s writings in the context of new approaches and abiding interest in his work, while also exploring the affinity between Ralph Ellison’s fiction and commentary and Barack Obama’s political and literary sensibilities, the book offers four new essays examining Ellison’s 1952 masterpiece, Invisible Man. It then turns to his unfinished second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting . . . , with five detailed chapters exploring that powerful and elusive narrative—the first sustained, book-length treatment of that multi-faceted work (the source of the shorter, edited novel Juneteenth). The New Territory concludes with five chapters that discuss Ellison’s political, cultural, and historical significance, asking how Ellison speaks to the America of 2016 and beyond. In The New Territory, we see how clearly Ellison foresaw and articulated both the challenges and the possibilities of America in the 21st century. Together, these chapters offer a thorough and penetrating assessment of Ellison at this crucial historical moment and the most comprehensive interpretive study of the writer best suited to act as the cultural prophet of 21st-century America.
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Front Matter
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The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
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Part one Invisible Man Sixty Years Later: Revisiting Ellison’s Masterpiece in the Twenty-First Century
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Invisible Man and the Politics of Love
Robert Butler
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The Body and Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison’s Novel in Twenty-First-Century Performance and Public Spaces
Patrice Rankine
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The Noisy Lostness: Oppositionality and Acousmatic Subjectivity in Invisible Man
Herman Beavers
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Invisible Man in the Age of Obama: Ellison on (Color) Blindness, Visibility, and the Hopes for a Postracial America
Bryan Crable
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Invisible Man and the Politics of Love
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Part Two Three Days before the Shooting …: Ellison’s Ongoing Epic of America
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Ralph Ellison in His Labyrinth
Eric J. Sundquist
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The Politics of Fatherhood in Three Days before the Shooting …
Lena Hill
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Father Abraham: Ellison’s Agon with the Fathers in Three Days before the Shooting …
Marc C. Conner
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Ralph Ellison’s Three Days: The Aesthetics of Political Change
Timothy Parrish
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Ralph Ellison’s Three Days before the Shooting … and the Implicit Morality of Form
Grant Shreve
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Ralph Ellison in His Labyrinth
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Part Three Ralph Ellison and American Culture: Ellison Past, Present, and Future
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“In a Strange Country”: The Challenge of American Inclusion
Lucas E. Morel
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Invisible Man’s Grandfather and the American Dream
Steven D. Ealy
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Mourning and Melancholy: Explaining the Ellison Animus
Ross Posnock
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“How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Screw in a Blues Singer?”: The French Revolution, King Louis Armstrong, and the Futuristic Jungleism of Jazz
Steven C. Tracy
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“In a Strange Country”: The Challenge of American Inclusion
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Conclusion Ralph Ellison in the Twenty-First Century
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End Matter
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