...J. Bradford Campbell This essay argues that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) provides promising ground and a certain imperative to investigate the underexamined intersections between literature and the history of psychiatry. Especially where African American literature is concerned, there has...

...Jean-Christophe Cloutier This article considers the impact of the comic book on Ralph Ellison's concept of the novel form, tracing the comic book allusions scattered within Invisible Man as well as Ellison's work and association with Dr. Fredric Wertham, founder of the Lafargue Psychiatric Clinic...

...Torleif Persson Abstract This article begins by noting that recent debates about the relevance of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man to contemporary American culture enact an opposition between historicism (the idea that the novel is a Jim Crow artifact) and universalism (the idea that it transcends...

... dramatized in novels like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) and Richard Wright's The Outsider (1953)—stresses the (long-denied) depth and complexity of black subjectivity, the former eschews considerations of black particularity for a punitive, state-sponsored approach to racial injustice. Copyright ©...

...Lindsey Andrews BRADLEY ADAM , Ralph Ellison in Progress: From Invisible Man to Three Days before the Shooting … ( New Haven : Yale UP , 2010 ), pp. 256 , cloth, $27.50 , paper, $20.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Indeterminacy...

... and textual materialism. The result is as ingenious a study of postwar fiction as a set of archaeological digs into modern spaces and locales. Alworth develops his theory by studying a number of novelists of the past fifty years, including Ralph Ellison, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, Don...

...Avak Hasratian DUVALL JOHN N. , Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 ), pp. 194 , cloth, $80.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Ellison Ralph . “Change the Joke...

... discovery of Carroll's work on electoral choice allows for a jump to the twentieth-century United States in chapter 4. Here Puckett pairs Arrow, a theorist of electoral choice, with Ellison, a novelist and critic of the all-too-lawful rigging of the US electoral system. Puckett first offers an “unexpectedly...

... tradition can be seen most clearly through references to Ralph Ellison in The Bluest Eye. By referring to Ellison's writings, Morrison's novel both conceals and displays a concern with an absent authenticity, miss- ing from the black middle class and located only in the past and specifically...

... not so much apologize for Mailer—and who would want to?—as explain the social and political milieu in which a Mailer could rise to prominence, be thought “prophetic,” and become the target of Ralph Ellison's most vindictive piece of writing, an unpublished short story about a child named “luddle Normundt...

... of this book. Without that framework, Anderson's various brilliant insights never quite cohere. To take just one example, her reading of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man slides from the issue of “liberalism” to Ellison's reliance on an ideal of “democracy.” Not only are those two not identical...

.... Indeed, one of the paradoxes of the book is that, though rooted in the modernist period, its readings of canonical modernist texts—Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu , Woolf's To the Lighthouse , Cather's My Ántonia , Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury , and Ellison's Invisible Man —are less...

... to represent or novelize or depict in the work of so many writers. Precisely because they command intense and visceral affec- tive responses, from the ambivalence with which Henry James both “romanticizes” and “indicts the telegraph” (75) throughout his late fiction to the uses that Ralph Ellison makes...

...—was to exploit chance as a marker of identity that could not be absorbed or otherwise defined by either system,” he explains (81). Belletto goes on to compare the functions of fate and coincidence in Wright's Native Son and The Outsider, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man , and Williams's The Man Who Cried I Am...

... and Colored Bottles: The Anthropology of Culture in Twentieth-Century African-American Writing.” Diss. Columbia U , 1997 . Dyer , Richard . “‘White’: The Last ‘Special’ Issue on Race?” Screen 29.4 ( 1988 ): 44 –64. Dyer , Richard . White . New York: Routledge, 1997 . Ellison...

... this case is powerful. On one level, she follows in the footsteps of black feminist literary critics such as Valerie Smith and Deborah McDowell who dismantle divides between fiction and theory (188); she does so not only by arguing that novels produce theory but also by granting Ellison's and Morrison's...

... and mixed- race children in these Asian American texts. As she puts it, “More overtly than most any Asian American texts before them, I would argue, these late twentieth-, early twenty-first- century fictions affiliate with extra-ethnic literary precursors; they choose ancestors, in Ellison’s phrase...

... of racism in urban infrastructure amidst postwar projects of gentrification and urban renewal. Examining novels set in Harlem by Chester Himes and Ralph Ellison, Wasserman examines how both writers figure signs, storefronts, blueprints, and other insubstantial and transient objects as proxies...

... and Addresses, 1890–1919 . Ed. Philip S. Foner New York: Pathfinder, 1970 . 196 –210. Du Bois , W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk . 1903. New York: New American Library, 1969 . Ellison , Ralph . “The World and the Jug.” 1964. Shadow and Act . New York: Vintage, 1995 . 107 –43...

... American Novel—book after book, decade after decade, as if, this time, one might finally be right! Conversely, authors as various as Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Jonathan Franzen have continued to conceive of literary projects as expressions of America...