Going to the territory

Ellison, Ralph

ISBN 10: 0394540506 / ISBN 13: 9780394540504

Published by Random House, New York, 1986

About this Item

338p., very good first edition stated with Random House number line ending in 2 as called for in first printings, hardcover bound in quarter-cloth boards and bright, unclipped dust jacket. A companion to the 1964 "Shadow and Act" collection. All new since the publication of the earlier book.

Seller Inventory # 30611

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: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary criticism
  • essays
  • Modern first edition
  • African American

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.