Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)

A selective list of online literary criticism for African American novelist Ralph Ellison, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites

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literary criticism

Bellow, Saul. Man Underground: A review of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man by novelist Saul Bellow, from Commentary, June 1952

Butler, Robert J. (ed.) A review of The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison (Greenwood Press 2000). African American Review, Winter 2001, reviewed by Kerry McSweeney

Butler, Robert. A review of John F. Callahan, ed. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook (Oxford UP 2004). African American Review, Fall 2005

Callahan, John F. and Christopher C. De Santis. "Some cord of kinship stronger and deeper than blood": An Interview with John F. Callahan, Editor of Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth - Interview in African American Review, Winter, 2000

Callahan, John F. (ed.) Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook. (Oxford UP 2004). Reviewed in African American Review, Fall 2005, by Robert Butler

Early, Gerald. Decoding Ralph Ellison, in Dissent, Summer 1997

Eichelberger, Julia. Review of Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty. (Louisiana State UP 1999) African American Review, Winter 2000, by Michael Kreyling

Hobson, Christopher Z. "Invisible Man and African American radicalism in World War II." African American Review, Fall 2005

Jackson, Lawrence. Ralph Ellison: Emergence of a Genius (John Wiley 2001). Reviewed in Black Issues Book Review, 11/1/01 by Robert Fleming

Kim, Daniel Y. "Invisible desires: Homoerotic racism and its homophobic critique in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 1997 [preview of article only, and blurred]

Mazurek, Raymond A. Writer on the left: Class and race in Ellison's early fiction. College Literature, Fall 2002 [preview of article only, and blurred]

Nadel, Alan. Publisher's blurb for Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (U of Iowa P 1991)

Nadel, Alan. "Ralph Ellison and the American Canon"American Literary History 13, 2 (Summer 2001)

Neighbors, Jim. "Plunging history: naming and self-possession in Invisible Man." African American Review, 2002

Saul, Scott. A review of Juneteenth in the Boston Review, 1999

Shinn, Christopher A. "Masquerade, magic, and carnival in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." African American Review, Summer 2002

Sundquist, Eric J. A review of Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. (St. Martin's 1995) Reviewed in African American Review, 1997

introduction

A biography of Ralph Ellison and some analysis, from Survey of American Literature, 1992

A Teacher's Guide to Ralph Ellison from textbook publisher Heath

A very brief biography of Ralph Ellison from the Black Collegian Online

Discussion questions for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, from publisher Random House

Discussion questions for Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, from Random House

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