Going to the Territory (SIGNED)

Ellison, Ralph

ISBN 10: 0394540506 / ISBN 13: 9780394540504

Published by Random House, New York, 1986

About this Item

1st Edition/2nd printing. Collection of Ellison essays. SIGNED (inscribed) on title page by Ralph Ellison: "For Dan Monte---with best wishes, Sincerely, Ralph Ellison November 16, 1987". DJ price clipped. Scarce signed copy. Note: No International orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 002592

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Going to the Territory (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394540506
• ISBN 13: 9780394540504
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • National Book Award Winners

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.