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Ralph Ellison (1914–1994)

Autor(a) de Invisible Man

25+ Works 18,274 Membros 237 Críticas 55 Favorited

About the Author

Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1914 - April 16, 1994) has the distinction of being one of the few writers who has established a firm literary reputation on the strength of a single work of long fiction. Writer and teacher, Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, studied at Tuskegee Institute, and has mostrar mais lectured at New York, Columbia, and Fisk universities and at Bard College. He received the Prix de Rome from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1955, and in 1964 he was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He has contributed short stories and essays to various publications. Invisible Man (1952), his first novel, won the National Book Award for 1953 and is considered an impressive work. It is a vision of the underground man who is also the invisible African American, and its possessor has employed this subterranean view and viewer to so extraordinary an advantage that the impression of the novel is that of a pioneer work. A book of essays, Shadow and Act, which discusses the African American in America and Ellison's Oklahoma boyhood, among other topics, appeared in 1964. Ralph Ellison died on April 16, 1994 of pancreatic cancer and was interred in a crypt at Trinity Church Cemetery in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Associated Works

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 730 exemplares
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Contribuidor — 404 exemplares
Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature (Mentor) (1968) — Contribuidor — 317 exemplares
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (1977) — Contribuidor — 294 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Contribuidor — 274 exemplares
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 265 exemplares
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 1: American Journalism 1941-1963 (2003) — Contribuidor — 231 exemplares
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Contribuidor — 202 exemplares
Modern American Memoirs (1995) — Contribuidor — 184 exemplares
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (2010) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Contribuidor — 96 exemplares
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Contribuidor — 89 exemplares
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor (2006) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
The Red Badge of Courage and Four Great Stories (1960) — Editor, algumas edições46 exemplares
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Robert Penn Warren talking: Interviews, 1950-1978 (1980) — Interviewer — 14 exemplares
The living novel, a symposium (1957) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Writer's Voice: Conversations With Contemporary Writers (1924) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Strange Barriers (1955) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Ellison, Ralph Waldo
Data de nascimento
1914-03-01
Data de falecimento
1994-04-16
Localização do túmulo
Washington Heights, New York, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Local de falecimento
New York, New York, USA
Educação
Tuskegee Institute
Ocupações
novelist
short-story writer
essayist
literary critic
photographer
sculptor (mostrar todos 7)
professor
Organizações
Merchant Marine
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1964)
Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1969)
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres (1970)
Langston Hughes Medallion (1984)
National Medal of Arts (1985)

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Born in Deep Deuce neighborhood of Oklahoma City.

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Discussions

***Group Read: Invisible Man Prologue & Chapters 1-12 em 1001 Books to read before you die (Setembro 2010)

Críticas

Obra fundamental na formação intelectual de Barack Obama, um dos romances seminais do cânone afro-americano, livro que resume a experiência de ser negro nos EUA, Homem invisível narra a história de um jovem negro que sai do sul racista dos Estados Unidos e vai para o Harlem, em Nova York, nos primeiros anos do século XX. Com o passar do tempo, entre experiências frequentemente contraditórias, o protagonista conhece um mundo muito diferente daquele que idealizara. Invisível para brancos racistas e também para negros, ele deseja apenas ser como é.… (mais)
 
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Estatísticas

Obras
25
Also by
34
Membros
18,274
Popularidade
#1,201
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
237
ISBN
154
Línguas
12
Marcado como favorito
55
Pedras de toque
669

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