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Chapter 22 of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Here are ten pages from the novel Invisible Man, with graphics and sound files that accompany the narrative. | |
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Ralph Ellison Biography This is a page of bulleted biographical items covering major events in the life of the author. | |
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The New York Times Books: Featured Author: Ralph Ellison You might have to sign up for your free membership to the New York Times on the Web site, but it is worth the five minutes you'll spend filling out their application in order to have access to all this information. The Ralph Ellison page contains links to more reviews of his books, articles about his work, and interviews with the author. | |
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The New Republic: FROM THE LETTERS OF RALPH ELLISON This is a fascinating site where you can read excerpts from a collection of Ellison's letters and compare how his writing differs in a different medium. John F. Callahan, Ellison’s literary executor, introduces the letters, writing: "The letters that follow express Ellison's views on the fraught matters of race and identity. On these urgent and delicate questions, Ellison's wisdom is distilled from his sense of the interrelatedness and the unpredictability of American life." | |
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Bohemian Ink: Ralph Ellison The on-line magazine Bohemian Ink presents this page on Ellison. The page provides a short bio and some links. | |
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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Here are some pages from the University of Pennsylvania, containing Saul Bellow's and Irving Howe's reviews of the novel, some other helpful criticism, a chapter summary and author profile by John Corry. The site is more broadly devoted to the belles-lettres in 1950s America, and therefore browsing some other of these pages may be helpful as well. | |
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Voices from the Thirties Homepage This informative page offers a look into the Federal Writer's Project, begun early in the Depression years by the Works Progress Administration. This New Deal initiative offered unemployed artists and writers a way to make ends meet. As a Federal Writer, Ellison completed some of the research interviews that would later contribute significantly to Invisible Man. The site contains quite a few great Depression era documentary photographs. | |
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Frank's Creative Quotations: Ralph Ellison Here are a few quotes from the author. | |
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Vintage Books: About the Author Here is a biographical page from Vintage Books. | |
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Ralph Ellison—from Leftist Reviews to Modernist Interiority This is an excerpt from Thomas Hill Schaub's American Fiction in the Cold War. It offers some possible clues as to Ellison's political ideology, particularly with respect to Marxism. The excerpt takes as a starting point some writings of Ellison's that appeared in New Masses from 1939-41. | |
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Two Letters, 1990-1992, Ralph Ellison to Lowry Ware Here is a detailed description of two letters of Ellison's that may be found in the University of South Carolina's manuscript collection. | |
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Authors Calendar Biographical Page This Finnish page presents a cursory biographical entry and selected bibliography. | |
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Saul Bellow on Ralph Ellison, 1952 Here is another review of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man. The review was published in The Commentary in June of the year 1952. Saul Bellow is a famous novelist and offers a different perspective on the power of Ellison’s writing. | |
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NYU: Ralph Ellison From the Medical Humanities/Literature Arts & Medicine pages at NYU, here is a synopsis and commentary on the novel. | |
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Ralph Ellison's Early Stories show his talent, etc. Ralph Ellison's Early Stories Show His Talent, and His Fascination with Flying. Here is a short review article on a posthumous book of short stories, Flying Home and Other Stories. | |
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Vintage Books: Reading Group Guides The Vintage Books site also contains this helpful reading guide for Invisible Man. The guide poses quite a few study questions directed at students, and provides a list of books for further reading. For more versed students and teachers, there is also a link on this page to the teacher's guide. |
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