- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; illustrated edition edition (22 Mar 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312100817
- ISBN-13: 978-0312100810
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.8 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 607,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The collection of primary documents in this volume recapitulates the course of African American life during the first half of the 20th century, while it provides a context for reading an important literary work. Keyed to events in the novel, the documents include selections by African American leaders (Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du bois, and Marcus Garvey); selections by leading African American writers (Langston Hughes and Richard Wright); songs, folktales, and other examples of black vernacular culture; and readings on African American migration, black labour in the industrial North, the role of communism in African American politics, and the end of legal segregation in the United States.
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The adventures of the narrator in "Invisible Man" present us with a condensed history of the struggle to create a black American identity in the first half of the 20th century. This book gives the reader a host of fascinating material which helps us understand the cultural, historical and social background to the experiences of the narrator. The first section deals with the struggle for black rights - including the famous (or infamous?) speech by Booker T Washington given at the Atlanta Exposition. The middle section explains a lot of the references to stories, songs and music; and the last section has interesting material on the Harlem of the 1920s to 1940s. The photographs are brilliant - including one of the statue at Tuskegee College, which is mentioned in "Invisible Man". Scrupulously edited and bound to be enlightening for any student of Ellison's book.
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Invaluable Resource for in-depth research
12 Sep 2004
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Eric Sundquist's book is an invaluable resource for information when trying to understand the background of Invisible Man. This is the place to start if you're doing research on the novel. Not only does Sundquist present the prolific sources that Ellison used and referenced through the novel, the editor also provides additional resource materials for each reference. It's wonderful if you're writing a research paper, and helpful for the curious reader who wants to be even further convinced of Ellison's genius.
Excellent annotation for our greatest American novel
3 Dec 2011
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If you were not awake during the Twentieth Century, you need this book to understand more fully our great American novel: Invisible Man by Mr. Ralph Ellison.
Too bad the sequel got burned by the FBI . . .
But we have this original, invisible novel, and it is magnificent and true, and made more visible by this contextualizing resource.
Of course, we do not need to read the annotated editions of the great and profound chronicles of their times, such as Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. We need hear naked Ulysses resonate within our own heart and soul and mind, opening thus our eyes to whatever it in ipse brings to the party.
Same with Ellison.
We can read this great and infinite novel as naked as the day it was published, or we can arouse ouselves to investigate what the heck is he talking about with the aid of this useful, scholarly, clear, factual and fairly comprehensive cultural report.
We can in fact come to know the American experience of the Twentieth century through this work alone.
Please contemplate Invisible Man deeply, and draw from that great source the strength to confront more wisely the horror we have now.
And if curious upon certain points and what they might have meant to Mr. Ellison, supplement with this book.
Basically, hear what Mr. Ellison tells us now directly in our own desperate cultural context.
And read this to find his own context, and the desperation which drove him then invisible.
Too bad the sequel got burned by the FBI . . .
But we have this original, invisible novel, and it is magnificent and true, and made more visible by this contextualizing resource.
Of course, we do not need to read the annotated editions of the great and profound chronicles of their times, such as Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. We need hear naked Ulysses resonate within our own heart and soul and mind, opening thus our eyes to whatever it in ipse brings to the party.
Same with Ellison.
We can read this great and infinite novel as naked as the day it was published, or we can arouse ouselves to investigate what the heck is he talking about with the aid of this useful, scholarly, clear, factual and fairly comprehensive cultural report.
We can in fact come to know the American experience of the Twentieth century through this work alone.
Please contemplate Invisible Man deeply, and draw from that great source the strength to confront more wisely the horror we have now.
And if curious upon certain points and what they might have meant to Mr. Ellison, supplement with this book.
Basically, hear what Mr. Ellison tells us now directly in our own desperate cultural context.
And read this to find his own context, and the desperation which drove him then invisible.
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