... of his own humanist ethical commitments, Reid-Pharr asserts that Ellison knew this was a trap and ended up spending the last several decades of his life penning a novel that radically disputed these precepts. This, he believes, is the real reason why Ellison was unable to finish Juneteenth during...

... demonstrates how Ellison’s specific techniques in representing cinematic experience exemplify, ironically, his primary allegiance to literary narrative. © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 African American writers American literature film Juneteenth novel visual culture “In the beginning...

... of its initial appearance in Juneteenth , a text that includes only a brief mention of the story arc of Minifees and his Cadillac. In Three Days , in the context of the Minifees narrative, the Joe Cah suggests less destruction than destructive creation: the Joe Cah politicizes what, as H. William Rice...

... answer to Fanny Ellison’s question was probably, or should have been, no. Although Callahan selected from the pile what he published in 1999 as the approximately 350-page novel Juneteenth and described its storyline as the “finished, coherent narrative that was the heart of the saga” (606), his find...

...—from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion (1977) to Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth (1999)—suggests a tacit commitment to a belief in a kind of authorial life that outstrips bodily death, a belief Islas seems to have held himself. 1 In the years following Arturo Islas’s death on February 15, 1991...