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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

By: Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan - editor, Saul Bellow - preface
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Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this classic collection includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as "a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race," and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that Black Americans lead. "Ralph Ellison", wrote Stanley Crouch, "reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans."

©2011 Ralph Ellison and John F. Callahan (P)2018 Random House Audio African American African American Studies Americas Black & African American Essays Literary History & Criticism Racism & Discrimination Social Sciences Specific Demographics United States Nonfiction Discrimination Social justice Ethnic Studies

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"[Ellison's] essays never fail to be elegantly written, beautifully composed, and intellectually sophisticated." (Los Angeles Times)
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The author was called the patriot and after reading and listening to his work I think he coined the phrase “American Experience” used by PBS. The breadth and depth of the black experience worked to his advantage. He might have written more novels had he not tried to write 800 pages for invisible man. Nonetheless prolific and predict.

Ellison was an American experience

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