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Published less than fifty years ago, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man shares with older classic works the odd quality of seeming to have been in place much longer. It is a novel that encompasses much of the American scene and character: though told by a single Afro-American voice and set in the contemporary South and then in modern New York City, its references are to the First World War, to Reconstruction, to the Civil War and slavery, to the founding of the American republic, to Columbus, and to the country's frontier past. In his introduction to this volume Robert O'Meally discusses Ellison's fictional strategies for reaching a wide audience while remaining true to his own artistic vision and voice. Then each of five critical essays explores a different aspect of this capacious novel. One looks at the novel's protagonist as an embattled artist-in-training: another focuses on the novel's political and philosophical backgrounds; a third discusses the style and meaning of the nameless narrator's speeches; a fourth examines the novel's modernism in light of its references to jazz and anthropology: and the final essay considers Invisible Man as a kind of war novel. Written in an accessible style, these essays represent the best of recent scholarship and provide students with a useful introduction to this major novel.

Ellison, Ralph --- Ellison, Ralph. --- African American men in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- African American men in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American men in literature --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Ellison (ralph), 1913 --- -African American men in literature. --- -Ellison (ralph), 1913

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JAZZ --- RHYTHM AND BLUES (CHANTS, ETC.) --- NOIRS AMERICAINS --- MUSIQUE

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From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Robert G. O'Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another.

Jazz --- History and criticism.

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African American arts --- African Americans --- Black history --- Afro-American arts --- Arts, African American --- Negro arts --- Ethnic arts --- Historiography --- History --- History of civilization --- United States --- African Americans history --- history --- United States of America

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Jazz --- -History and criticism