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Selected Bibliography

Bibliographical Note

This bibliography contains a complete listing of all writings by Ralph Ellison relevant to the composition of Invisible Man. It also contains a compilation of all the book-length studies of Ellison’s oeuvre cited in this study. Individual journal articles, book chapters, and anthologized essays are referenced in the text and endnotes; their authors are listed in the index. A full listing of the hundreds of contributions to Ellison scholarship is available online at the MLA International Bibliography.

Library and Manuscript Collections

Interview with Abner Berry. Oral History of the American Left, Tamiment Library, New York University, New York City.

Interview with Howard “Stretch” Johnson. Oral History of the American Left, Tamiment Library, New York University, New York City.

Josie Craig Berry Papers. Special Collections, University of Oklahoma Library, Tulsa, Okla.

“The Negro in New York,” Federal Writers Project. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City.

Ralph Ellison Papers. Manuscript Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Richard B. Moore Papers. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City.

Richard Wright Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection. Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Stanley Edgar Hyman Papers. Manuscript Collective, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Ellison’s Uncollected Published Essays, Reviews, and Short Stories, Listed by Date
Creative and Cultural Lag
.”
New Challenge: A Literary Quarterly
2
, no.
2
(
1937
):
90
91
.
Slick Gonna Learn
.”
Direction
2
(
September
1937
)
10
11
,
14
,
16
Practical Mystic
.”
New Masses
,
16
August
1938
25
26
.
Anti-Semitism among Negroes
.”
Jewish People’s Voice
,
3
April
1939
3
,
8
Judge Lynch in New York
.”
New Masses
,
15
August
1939
15
16
.
Ruling-Class Southerner
.”
New Masses
,
5
December
1939
27
Javanese Folklore
.”
New Masses
,
26
December
1939
25
26
.
Camp Lost Colony
.”
New Masses
,
6
February
1940
18
19
.
The ‘Good Life.’
New Masses
,
20
February
1940
27
TAC Negro Show
,”
New Masses
,
27
February
1940
29
30
.
Hunters and Pioneers
.”
New Masses
,
19
March
1940
26
Anti-War Novel
.”
New Masses
,
18
June
1940
29
30
.
The Birthmark
.”
New Masses
,
2
July
1940
16
17
.
Stormy Weather
.”
New Masses
,
24
September
1940
20
21
.
Big White Fog
.”
New Masses
,
12
November
1940
22
23
.
Argosy across the USA
.”
New Masses
,
26
November
1940
24
Negro Prize Fighter
.”
New Masses
,
17
December
1940
26
27
.
Philippine Report
.”
Direction
4
(summer
1941
):
13
Richard Wright and Recent Negro Fiction
.”
Direction
4
(summer
1941
):
12
13
.
Recent Negro Fiction
.”
New Masses
,
5
August
1941
22
26
.
The Great Migration
.”
New Masses
,
2
December
1941
23
24
.
Wilson
David
,
Ellison
Ralph
], “
Treasury of Negro Literature
.”
Sunday Worker
,
8
March
1942
:
6
.
Statement of Policy
.”
Editorial, Negro Quarterly
1
, no.
1
(spring
1942
):
3
4
.
Transition
.”
Negro Quarterly
1
, no.
1
(spring
1942
):
87
,
91
,
92
Native Land
.”
New Masses
,
2
June
1942
29
Editorial Comment
.”
Negro Quarterly
1
, no.
2
(summer
1942
):
i
iv
.
Editorial Comment
.”
Negro Quarterly
1
, no.
3
(fall
1942
):
195
96
,
240
Editorial Comment
.”
Negro Quarterly
1
, no.
4
(winter–spring
1943
):
295
302
.
Eyewitness Story of Riot: False Rumors Spurred Mob
,”
New York Post
,
1
August
1943
.
Harlem 24 Hours After – Peace and Quiet Reign
,”
New York Post
,
3
August
1943
.
New World A-Coming
,”
Tomorrow
3
(
September
1943
)
68
The Booker T
.”
New Republic
114
(
1946
):
261
62
.
The Battle Royal
.”
Horizon
16
(
October
1947
)
104
18
.
The Battle Royal
.”
’48: Magazine of the Year
2
(
January
1948
)
14
15
,
20
21
,
32
Collaborator with His Own Enemy
.”
New York Times Book Review
,
19
February
1950
:
4
.
The Invisible Man: Prologue to a Novel
.”
Partisan Review
,
January–February
1952
31
40
.
Did You Ever Dream Lucky?
New World Writing
5
(
April
1954
)
134
45
.
Beware of the Snake Who Dresses Like a Man
.”
People’s Daily World
,
17
November
1954
:
5
.
February
.”
Saturday Review of Literature
,
1
January
1955
25
Out of the Hospital and under the Bar
.”
Soon One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes, 1940–1962
, Ed.
Hill
Herbert
,
242
90
.
New York
:
Knopf
,
1963
.
“The Power Line Tapped ” (prologue to Invisible Man)
.
Black Hands on a White Face: A Time-Piece of Experiences in a Black and White America: An Anthology
,
229
41
. Ed.
Burnett
Whit
.
New York
:
Dodd, Mead
,
1971
.
Essay Collections, Interviews, Published Letters, and Published Fiction by Ellison
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
, rev. edn. Ed.
Callahan
John F.
New York
:
Modern Library
,
2003
.
Conversations with Ralph Ellison
. Ed.
Graham
Maryemmaand
,
Singh
Amrijit
.
Jackson
:
University Press of Mississippi
,
1995
Flying Home and Other Stories
. Ed.
Callahan
John F.
New York
:
Random House
,
1996
.
Invisible Man
.
1952
;
rpt. with an introduction
.
New York
:
Random House
,
1982
.
Juneteenth: A Novel
. Ed.
Callahan
John F.
New York
:
Random House
,
1999
.
Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
. Ed. Murray
Albert
and
Callahan
John F.
New York
:
Modern Library
,
2000
.
Volumes of Critical Commentary, Theses, and Book-Length Studies of Ellison
Benston
,
Kimberly
, ed.
Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison
.
Washington, D.C.
:
Howard University Press
,
1987
.
Bloom
Harold
, ed.
Modern Critical Interpretations: Invisible Man
.
Philadelphia
:
Chelsea House
,
1999
.
Butler
,
Robert J.
, ed.
The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison
.
Westport, Conn.
:
Greenwood Press
,
2000
.
Callahan
,
John F.
, ed.
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Casebook
.
New York
:
Oxford University Press
,
2004
.
Jackson
,
Lawrence
.
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius
.
New York
:
John Wiley
,
2002
.
Jeffries
,
Dexter
. “
Richard Wright and the Daily Worker: A Native Son’s Journalistic Apprenticeship
.”
Ph.d. dissertation
,
City University of New York
,
2000
.
Kim
,
Daniel Y.
Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity
.
Stanford
:
Stanford University Press
,
2005
.
List
,
Robert N.
.
Dedalus in Harlem: The Joyce-Ellison Connection
.
Washington, D.C.
:
University Press of America
,
1982
.
McSweeney
,
Kerry
.
Invisible Man: Race and Identity
.
New York
:
Twayne
,
1988
.
Morel
,
Lucas
.
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man
.
Lexington
:
University Press of Kentucky
,
2004
Nadel
,
Alan
.
Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon
.
Iowa City
:
University of Iowa Press
,
1988
O’Meally
,
Robert
.
The Craft of Ralph Ellison
.
Cambridge, Mass.
:
Harvard University Press
,
1980
.
Parr
,
Susan Resnick
, and
Savery
Pancho
.
Approaches to Teaching Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
.
New York
:
Modern Language Association
,
1989
.
Porter
,
Horace A.
Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America
.
Iowa City
:
University of Iowa Press
,
2001
Posnock
,
Ross
.
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison
.
Cambridge, England
:
Cambridge University Press
,
2005
.
Powers
,
Christopher
. “
Ambivalent Freedom: The Politics of Style in the Writings of James Joyce and Ralph Ellison
.”
Ph.d. dissertation
,
Johns Hopkins University
,
2003
.
Rampersad
,
Arnold
.
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
.
New York
:
Knopf
,
2007
.
Rankin
,
Patrice D.
Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature
.
Madison
:
University of Wisconsin Press
,
2006
.
Reavis
,
Dick Johnson
. “
Defamatory Man: Ralph Ellison and the Communist Party
.”
M.A. Thesis
,
University of Texas
,
Arlington
,
1998
.
Reilly
,
John
, ed.
Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Invisible Man
.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
:
Prentice-Hall
,
1970
.
Rice
William H.
.
Ralph Ellison and the Politics of the Novel
.
Lanham, Md
:
Lexington Books
,
2003
.
Sundquist
,
Eric J.
, ed.
Cultural Contexts for Invisible Man
.
Boston
:
Bedford Books
,
1995
.
Thomas
,
P. L.
Reading, Learning, Teaching Ralph Ellison
.
New York
:
Peter Lang
,
2008
.
Tracy
,
Steven C.
A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison
.
Oxford
:
Oxford University Press
,
2004
.
Warren
,
Kenneth
.
So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
2003
.
Watts
,
Jerry Gafio
.
Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life
.
Chapel Hill
:
University of North Carolina Press
,
1994
.
Wright
,
John S.
Shadowing Ralph Ellison
.
Jackson
:
University Press of Mississippi
,
2006

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References

Selected Bibliography

Bibliographical Note

This bibliography contains a complete listing of all writings by Ralph Ellison relevant to the composition of Invisible Man. It also contains a compilation of all the book-length studies of Ellison’s oeuvre cited in this study. Individual journal articles, book chapters, and anthologized essays are referenced in the text and endnotes; their authors are listed in the index. A full listing of the hundreds of contributions to Ellison scholarship is available online at the MLA International Bibliography.

Library and Manuscript Collections

Interview with Abner Berry. Oral History of the American Left, Tamiment Library, New York University, New York City.

Interview with Howard “Stretch” Johnson. Oral History of the American Left, Tamiment Library, New York University, New York City.

Josie Craig Berry Papers. Special Collections, University of Oklahoma Library, Tulsa, Okla.

“The Negro in New York,” Federal Writers Project. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City.

Ralph Ellison Papers. Manuscript Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Richard B. Moore Papers. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City.

Richard Wright Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection. Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Stanley Edgar Hyman Papers. Manuscript Collective, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Ellison’s Uncollected Published Essays, Reviews, and Short Stories, Listed by Date
Creative and Cultural Lag
.”
New Challenge: A Literary Quarterly
2
, no.
2
(
1937
):
90
91
.
Slick Gonna Learn
.”
Direction
2
(
September
1937
)
10
11
,
14
,
16
Practical Mystic
.”
New Masses
,
16
August
1938
25
26
.
Anti-Semitism among Negroes
.”
Jewish People’s Voice
,
3
April
1939
3
,
8
Judge Lynch in New York
.”
New Masses
,
15
August
1939
15
16
.
Ruling-Class Southerner
.”
New Masses
,
5
December
1939
27
Javanese Folklore
.”
New Masses
,
26
December
1939
25
26
.
Camp Lost Colony
.”
New Masses
,
6
February
1940
18
19
.
The ‘Good Life.’
New Masses
,
20
February
1940
27
TAC Negro Show
,”
New Masses
,
27
February
1940
29
30
.
Hunters and Pioneers
.”
New Masses
,
19
March
1940
26
Anti-War Novel
.”
New Masses
,
18
June
1940
29
30
.
The Birthmark
.”
New Masses
,
2
July
1940
16
17
.
Stormy Weather
.”
New Masses
,
24
September
1940
20
21
.
Big White Fog
.”
New Masses
,
12
November
1940
22
23
.
Argosy across the USA
.”
New Masses
,
26
November
1940
24
Negro Prize Fighter
.”
New Masses
,
17
December
1940
26
27
.
Philippine Report
.”
Direction
4
(summer
1941
):
13
Richard Wright and Recent Negro Fiction
.”
Direction
4
(summer
1941
):
12
13
.
Recent Negro Fiction
.”
New Masses
,
5
August
1941
22
26
.
The Great Migration
.”
New Masses
,
2
December
1941
23
24
.
Wilson
David
,
Ellison
Ralph
], “
Treasury of Negro Literature
.”
Sunday Worker
,
8
March
1942
:
6
.
Statement of Policy
.”
Editorial, Negro Quarterly
1
, no.
1
(spring
1942
):
3
4
.
Transition
.”
Negro Quarterly
1
, no.
1
(spring
1942
):
87
,
91
,
92
Native Land
.”
New Masses
,
2
June
1942
29
Editorial Comment
.”
Negro Quarterly
1
, no.
2
(summer
1942
):
i
iv
.
Editorial Comment
.”
Negro Quarterly
1
, no.
3
(fall
1942
):
195
96
,
240
Editorial Comment
.”
Negro Quarterly
1
, no.
4
(winter–spring
1943
):
295
302
.
Eyewitness Story of Riot: False Rumors Spurred Mob
,”
New York Post
,
1
August
1943
.
Harlem 24 Hours After – Peace and Quiet Reign
,”
New York Post
,
3
August
1943
.
New World A-Coming
,”
Tomorrow
3
(
September
1943
)
68
The Booker T
.”
New Republic
114
(
1946
):
261
62
.
The Battle Royal
.”
Horizon
16
(
October
1947
)
104
18
.
The Battle Royal
.”
’48: Magazine of the Year
2
(
January
1948
)
14
15
,
20
21
,
32
Collaborator with His Own Enemy
.”
New York Times Book Review
,
19
February
1950
:
4
.
The Invisible Man: Prologue to a Novel
.”
Partisan Review
,
January–February
1952
31
40
.
Did You Ever Dream Lucky?
New World Writing
5
(
April
1954
)
134
45
.
Beware of the Snake Who Dresses Like a Man
.”
People’s Daily World
,
17
November
1954
:
5
.
February
.”
Saturday Review of Literature
,
1
January
1955
25
Out of the Hospital and under the Bar
.”
Soon One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes, 1940–1962
, Ed.
Hill
Herbert
,
242
90
.
New York
:
Knopf
,
1963
.
“The Power Line Tapped ” (prologue to Invisible Man)
.
Black Hands on a White Face: A Time-Piece of Experiences in a Black and White America: An Anthology
,
229
41
. Ed.
Burnett
Whit
.
New York
:
Dodd, Mead
,
1971
.
Essay Collections, Interviews, Published Letters, and Published Fiction by Ellison
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
, rev. edn. Ed.
Callahan
John F.
New York
:
Modern Library
,
2003
.
Conversations with Ralph Ellison
. Ed.
Graham
Maryemmaand
,
Singh
Amrijit
.
Jackson
:
University Press of Mississippi
,
1995
Flying Home and Other Stories
. Ed.
Callahan
John F.
New York
:
Random House
,
1996
.
Invisible Man
.
1952
;
rpt. with an introduction
.
New York
:
Random House
,
1982
.
Juneteenth: A Novel
. Ed.
Callahan
John F.
New York
:
Random House
,
1999
.
Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
. Ed. Murray
Albert
and
Callahan
John F.
New York
:
Modern Library
,
2000
.
Volumes of Critical Commentary, Theses, and Book-Length Studies of Ellison
Benston
,
Kimberly
, ed.
Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison
.
Washington, D.C.
:
Howard University Press
,
1987
.
Bloom
Harold
, ed.
Modern Critical Interpretations: Invisible Man
.
Philadelphia
:
Chelsea House
,
1999
.
Butler
,
Robert J.
, ed.
The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison
.
Westport, Conn.
:
Greenwood Press
,
2000
.
Callahan
,
John F.
, ed.
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Casebook
.
New York
:
Oxford University Press
,
2004
.
Jackson
,
Lawrence
.
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius
.
New York
:
John Wiley
,
2002
.
Jeffries
,
Dexter
. “
Richard Wright and the Daily Worker: A Native Son’s Journalistic Apprenticeship
.”
Ph.d. dissertation
,
City University of New York
,
2000
.
Kim
,
Daniel Y.
Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity
.
Stanford
:
Stanford University Press
,
2005
.
List
,
Robert N.
.
Dedalus in Harlem: The Joyce-Ellison Connection
.
Washington, D.C.
:
University Press of America
,
1982
.
McSweeney
,
Kerry
.
Invisible Man: Race and Identity
.
New York
:
Twayne
,
1988
.
Morel
,
Lucas
.
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man
.
Lexington
:
University Press of Kentucky
,
2004
Nadel
,
Alan
.
Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon
.
Iowa City
:
University of Iowa Press
,
1988
O’Meally
,
Robert
.
The Craft of Ralph Ellison
.
Cambridge, Mass.
:
Harvard University Press
,
1980
.
Parr
,
Susan Resnick
, and
Savery
Pancho
.
Approaches to Teaching Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
.
New York
:
Modern Language Association
,
1989
.
Porter
,
Horace A.
Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America
.
Iowa City
:
University of Iowa Press
,
2001
Posnock
,
Ross
.
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison
.
Cambridge, England
:
Cambridge University Press
,
2005
.
Powers
,
Christopher
. “
Ambivalent Freedom: The Politics of Style in the Writings of James Joyce and Ralph Ellison
.”
Ph.d. dissertation
,
Johns Hopkins University
,
2003
.
Rampersad
,
Arnold
.
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
.
New York
:
Knopf
,
2007
.
Rankin
,
Patrice D.
Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature
.
Madison
:
University of Wisconsin Press
,
2006
.
Reavis
,
Dick Johnson
. “
Defamatory Man: Ralph Ellison and the Communist Party
.”
M.A. Thesis
,
University of Texas
,
Arlington
,
1998
.
Reilly
,
John
, ed.
Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Invisible Man
.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
:
Prentice-Hall
,
1970
.
Rice
William H.
.
Ralph Ellison and the Politics of the Novel
.
Lanham, Md
:
Lexington Books
,
2003
.
Sundquist
,
Eric J.
, ed.
Cultural Contexts for Invisible Man
.
Boston
:
Bedford Books
,
1995
.
Thomas
,
P. L.
Reading, Learning, Teaching Ralph Ellison
.
New York
:
Peter Lang
,
2008
.
Tracy
,
Steven C.
A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison
.
Oxford
:
Oxford University Press
,
2004
.
Warren
,
Kenneth
.
So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
2003
.
Watts
,
Jerry Gafio
.
Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life
.
Chapel Hill
:
University of North Carolina Press
,
1994
.
Wright
,
John S.
Shadowing Ralph Ellison
.
Jackson
:
University Press of Mississippi
,
2006
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