Random House Trade An Excerpt of the first chapter of the Novel by ralph ellison. http://www.randomhouse.com/atrandom/ralphellison/excerpt.html
Extractions: Father Joe is a many-layered memoir of a god-driven Englishman... When I read passages to my wife and my voice began to give way she said, Keep going, keep going. I really didn't need much urging. I could easily have read the whole book in one sitting but it's too rich, too powerful, overwhelming... You might see some of yourself in Tony Hendra. If you see anything of yourself in Father Joe you are blessed. Like me you might cherish this book so much you'll keep it on the shelf beside St. Augustine, St. Theresa of Avila, Thomas Merton..." - Frank McCourt , author of Angela's Ashes
Juneteenth By Ralph Ellison A short commentary on the book by ralph ellison. http://www.kappabetasigma.org/Literature/Ellison.htm
Extractions: When Ralph Ellison died, in April, 1994, at the age of eighty, be had been working on his second novel for forty years. That novel bad been awaited more keenly, perhaps, than any other in American literary history. And yet Ellison refused to keep to any timetable but his own. He was still working on "the transitions," he told anyone who asked. Juneteenth ." The narrative of the novel alternates between the old minister's lyrical recounting of the events of the past and the senator's feverish, dreamlike reminiscences. In the following chapter, which has been slightly abridged, the senator remembers his life in the late nineteen-twenties, the period between his black childhood and his white adulthood, during which he traveled through the Southwest, posing as a professional filmmaker, and had a brief but intense affair with an Oklahoma girl.
Juneteenth ralph ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan spoke at the Library on two consecutive standingroom-only lectures about ellison and his two novels, Invisible Man and Juneteenth. Library of Congress Information Bulletin, August 1999 issue. http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9908/juneteenth.html
Extractions: Ralph Ellison Editor Speaks at Library BY YVONNE FRENCH "'There've been a heap of Juneteenths gone by and there'll be a heap more before we're free.' That's what [Ralph] Ellison was saying to every one of us." So said his literary executor, John F. Callahan (left, photo by N. Alicia Byers ), on June 30 during the second of two consecutive standing-room-only Library of Congress lectures about Ralph Ellison and his two novels, Invisible Man and Juneteenth, whose main character, the Rev. Alonzo Hickman, utters the above words. Mr. Callahan painstakingly assembled Ellison's unfinished novel, Juneteenth, using the Ellison papers in the Library's Manuscript Division. He discussed the long-awaited novel at the second of two back-to-back literary evenings. The first, a June 29 Bradley Lecture, was about Ellison's first novel Invisible Man.
Greenwood Publishing Group I1 of a study by Edith Schor along with the table of contents.A Study of ralph ellison's Fiction. http://info.greenwood.com/books/0313274/0313274924.html
Extractions: Schor traces the development of Ralph Ellison's fiction from the earliest experiments to the major accomplishment of his novel Invisible Man, the mature prose of the Hickman stories and other published portions of his novel-in-progress. The study considers the two-fold obligation Ellison felt in committing himself to literature: to contribute at once to the growth of literature and also to the shaping of the culture as he would like it to be. His stories, read sequentially, reflect his struggle to encompass this aim in his writing. In describing that fragment of American experience he knew best, he learned to use the rich resources of his African-American heritage; from his passionate involvement with his craft came the discovery that, in literature, values turn in their own way, not in the service of politics or ideology. The early stories mark Ellison's "mazelike" route that developed the skill, talent, and imagination and personal vision needed to transform experience into art. The novel demonstrates the flowering of his talent, and the Hickman stories add a fine patina. In her discussion of Ellison's work, Professor Schor uses his essays and interviews as well as the insights of other critics to comment directly on his fiction. The study concludes with a bibliography of Ellison's fiction and nonfiction and a selective bibliography of criticism and related sources.
Juneteenth ralph ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan spoke at the Library of Congress about ellison and his two novels, Invisible Man and Juneteenth. Library of Congress Information Bulletin, August 1999 issue. http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9908/juneteenth.html
Extractions: Ralph Ellison Editor Speaks at Library BY YVONNE FRENCH "'There've been a heap of Juneteenths gone by and there'll be a heap more before we're free.' That's what [Ralph] Ellison was saying to every one of us." So said his literary executor, John F. Callahan (left, photo by N. Alicia Byers ), on June 30 during the second of two consecutive standing-room-only Library of Congress lectures about Ralph Ellison and his two novels, Invisible Man and Juneteenth, whose main character, the Rev. Alonzo Hickman, utters the above words. Mr. Callahan painstakingly assembled Ellison's unfinished novel, Juneteenth, using the Ellison papers in the Library's Manuscript Division. He discussed the long-awaited novel at the second of two back-to-back literary evenings. The first, a June 29 Bradley Lecture, was about Ellison's first novel Invisible Man.
