Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America

by Timothy Parrish

Book Overview

Ralph Ellison has long been admired as the author of one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man. Yet he has also been dismissed by some critics as a writer who only published one major work of fiction and a black intellectual out of touch with his times. In this book, Timothy Parrish offers a fundamentally different assessment of Ellison's legacy, describing him as the most important American writer since...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558499229
• ISBN13: 9781558499225
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher