One of the most important books in American Literature, Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” is a surrealist satirical socio-political horror novel that attempts to examine the American Black Experience via a series of incidents in the life of the narrator, a nameless black man who claims to be invis...
Juneteenth..."the celebration of a gaudy illusion," regarding Emancipation. And Lord knows Ellison's forty-year effort to complete this novel needed adept assistance from a good editor, John F. Callahan, Ellison's literary executor. But it's no "gaudy illusion."It's a wonderful, entrapping book,...
Ralph Ellison pulls no punches in this collection, and if you have read Invisible Man and/or some of his essays then you will enjoy Flying Home and Other Stories. The stories that provoke the most open dialogue, and provide the most clear view of Ellison's stance, on race are "A Coupla Scalped In...
CHAPTER 8AFTER BLANDLY INTRODUCING HIMSELF and recalling our encounter in Rouen and at the press conference, M. Vannec’s letter was one question after another.Prior to my visit of last year, I hadn’t seen your country since 1937, during the crisis of the Spanish Civil War…. I see American journal...
The wires strung from one pole to the next gleamed bright copper in the summer sun. Glints of green light shot from the pole’s glass insulators as the boys stared. “Funny ain’t no birds on them wires, huh?” “They got too much ’lectricity in ’em. You can even hear ’em hum they got so much.” Riley ...