Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison (Approaches to Teaching World Literature) - Tapa dura

 
9781603296717: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
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ISBN 10: 1603296719 ISBN 13: 9781603296717
Editorial: Modern Language Association of America, 2024

Sinopsis

Unsparingly honest writings about America and race

One of the most important American authors and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Ralph Ellison had a keen and unsentimental understanding of the relationship between race, art, and activism in American life. He contended with other writers of his day in his examination of the entrenched racism in society, and his writing continues to inform national conversations in letters and culture.

The essays in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison will help instructors in colleges, high schools, and prisons teach not only the indispensable Invisible Man but also Ellison's short stories, his essays, and the two editions of his second, unfinished novel, Juneteenth and Three Days before the Shooting . . . . In considering Ellison's works in relation to jazz, technology, humor, politics, queerness, and disability, this volume mirrors the breadth of Ellison's own life, which extended from the Jim Crow era through the Black Power movement.

This volume contains discussion of Ellison's "What America Would Be Like without Blacks," "Flying Home," "Cadillac Flambé," and "An Extravagance of Laughter" as well as works by James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, and Richard Wright.

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Editorial
Modern Language Association of America
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1603296719
ISBN 13 
9781603296717
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
208
Editor
Floreani Tracy
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