Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 314 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781789974959
,
9781789974966
Series Statement:
Race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century volume 6
Content:
Contents: The World in Ellison: Migratory Intertexts – Sam Halliday: Ralph Ellison and the Divergent African American Claims on Henry James – Bryan Crable: Ellison’s Appropriation of Jane Ellen Harrison’s Themis: From Sacrifice to Sacrament – Tessa Roynon: Ralph Ellison and the Metamorphoses of Ovid: Transformative Allusions – Stephen Rachman: Ellison and Dostoevsky: A Critical Reassessment of the Aesthetics and Politics – Ellison in the World: Translations and Receptions – Aretha Phiri: (In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa – Olga Panova: Ralph Ellison in the USSR and Post- Soviet Russia: «Hidden Name and Complex Fate» – Christa Buschendorf and Nicole Lindenberg: Ellison in East and West Germany: Early Reception in a Divided Country – Michio Arimitsu and Raphaël Lambert: Ralph Ellison and African American Literature in Post- World War II Japan: Making Blackness Visible – Marc C. Conner: Afterword: How Ralph Ellison Speaks to the World.
Content:
This essay collection begins the vast project that is the global history of Ralph Ellison’s life and work. It examines how and why this avowedly «American» author read literature and scholarship from across the world and has in turn been widely read outside the borders of the USA. How did Ellison’s encounters with the «international» Henry James, the Cambridge Ritualists, the Roman poet Ovid and with Dostoevsky shape both the aesthetics and the politics of his own work? And what is the relationship between Invisible Man and the complex and always evolving political and cultural contexts of South Africa, the USSR and Russia, Germany and Japan since World War II? Contributors from seven different countries – based in Asia, Africa, Europe and the USA – deploy significant archival research both in Ellison’s personal library and in the translation and reception histories of his iconic first novel. This study of «the world in Ellison and Ellison in the world» initiates an important new approach in Ellison studies, illuminating hitherto hidden dimensions of the man and his writings
Content:
«In Global Ralph Ellison: Aesthetics and Politics Beyond US Borders, editors Tessa Roynon and Marc Conner assemble eight penetrating essays that demand a reassessment of the vaunted «Americanness» too often used to circumscribe Ellison’s work. By weaving rich archival material together with fresh analytical approaches, these essays reveal the underappreciated international influences on Ellison’s intellectual and artistic formation as well as the incredible reception Invisible Man has enjoyed across the globe. A treasure trove for Ellison readers and researchers alike, Global Ralph Ellison provides an intriguing new lens for studying, appreciating, and wrestling with Ellison’s work and ideas.»(Lena M. Hill, Washington and Lee University)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781789974942
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe International Ralph Ellison Symposium (2017 : Oxford) Global Ralph Ellison Oxford : Peter Lang, 2021 ISBN 9781789974942
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Ellison, Ralph 1913-1994
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