Going to the Territory

Ellison, Ralph

ISBN 10: 0394540506 / ISBN 13: 9780394540504

Published by Random House, New York, 1986

About this Item

first Edition stated with correct number sequence for this publisher and year. In cream boards with blue spine cloth and gilt to type. Faint moisture stains to bottom of spine and small spots to bottoms of front endpapers. Some foxing to top page ends. Clean interior and solid binding. Jacket is unclipped and glossy with moisture stain to bottom inside of spine with a tiny amount to adjacent edges of panels - barely visible from outsde. 1st Printing.

Seller Inventory # LPB011418RE

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.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

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.