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Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America
A provocative reappraisal of the legacy of a major American writer
253 pages, Hardcover
First published December 31, 2011
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August 6, 2016Timothy Parrish, AM'88
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From our pages (Sept–Oct/12): "Some critics believe that Ralph Ellison, whose 1952 novel Invisible Man described the early 20th-century African American experience, was a black intellectual out of touch with his time. But Florida State University English professor Timothy Parrish argues that Ellison is the most important American writer since William Faulkner. Parrish, drawing on archival materials and unpublished correspondence, uses jazz artist Wynton Marsalis's characterization of Ellison as the unacknowledged 'political theorist' of the civil-rights movement as a jumping-off point to maintain that Ellison in fact understood the cultural implications of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision better than any other American intellectual."
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From our pages (Sept–Oct/12): "Some critics believe that Ralph Ellison, whose 1952 novel Invisible Man described the early 20th-century African American experience, was a black intellectual out of touch with his time. But Florida State University English professor Timothy Parrish argues that Ellison is the most important American writer since William Faulkner. Parrish, drawing on archival materials and unpublished correspondence, uses jazz artist Wynton Marsalis's characterization of Ellison as the unacknowledged 'political theorist' of the civil-rights movement as a jumping-off point to maintain that Ellison in fact understood the cultural implications of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision better than any other American intellectual."
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