Going to the Territory

Ellison, Ralph

ISBN 10: 0394540506 / ISBN 13: 9780394540504

Published by Random House, 1986

About this Item

338pp. Light cream boards with black cloth spine with bright gilt title. Full color dust jacket with title. Stated First Edition. Author of "Invisible Man", "Shadow and Act" and "Going to the Territory." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 3405

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Going to the Territory
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394540506
• ISBN 13: 9780394540504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine

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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.