Going to the Territory

Ellison, Ralph

ISBN 10: 0394540506 / ISBN 13: 9780394540504

Published by Random House, New York, 1986

About this Item

Octavo in blue-white DJ, 338 pages; 22 cm. Ten essays, lectures, personal reminiscences, and interviews. Contents: The little man at Chehaw Station -- On initiation rites and power: Ralph Ellison speaks at West Point -- What these children are like -- The myth of the flawed white Southerner -- If the twain shall meet -- What America would be like without blacks -- Portrait of Inman Page: a dedication speech -- Going to the territory -- An extravagance of laughter -- Remembering Richard Wright -- Homage to Duke Ellington on his birthday -- The art of Romare Bearden -- Society, morality, and the novel -- "A very stern discipline" -- The novel as a function of American democracy -- Perspective of literature. Ellison, Ralph -- Authorship, Essays. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gently rubbed corners, light soiling mark to boards, bright pages in tight binding, extremely light soiling to DJ, else Near Fine(-) in Near Fine(-) DJ.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Going to the Territory
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394540506
• ISBN 13: 9780394540504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition (stated).
• Condition: Near Fine(-)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Language, Linguistics & Criticism

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Synopsis

The work of one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life."

-- Washington Post Book World

The seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative novelists but perhaps also our most perceptive and iconoclastic commentator on matters of literature, culture, and race. In Going to the Territory, Ellison provides us with dramatically fresh readings of William Faulkner and Richard Wright, along with new perspectives on the music of Duke Ellington and the art of Romare Bearden. He analyzes the subversive quality of black laughter, the mythic underpinnings of his masterpiece Invisible Man, and the extent to which America's national identity rests on the contributions of African Americans. Erudite, humane, and resounding with humor and common sense, the result is essential Ellison.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap

one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life."

-- Washington Post Book World

The seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative novelists but perhaps also our most perceptive and iconoclastic commentator on matters of literature, culture, and race. In Going to the Territory, Ellison provides us with dramatically fresh readings of William Faulkner and Richard Wright, along with new perspectives on the music of Duke Ellington and the art of Romare Bearden. He analyzes the subversive quality of black laughter, the mythic underpinnings of his masterpiece Invisible Man, and the extent to which America's national identity rests on the contributions of African Americans. Erudite, humane, and resounding with humor and common sense, the result is essential Ellison.


From the Trade Paperback edition.