Introduction : Ellison's joking /Ross Posnock --Ralph Ellison's invented life : a meeting with the ancestors /Lawrence Jackson --Ellison and the black Church : the gospel according to Ralph /Laura Saunders --Ellison, photography, and the origins of invisibility /Sara Blair --Ralph Ellison's music lessons /Paul Allen Anderson --Ralph Ellison's constitutional faith /Gregg Crane --Ralph Ellison and the politics of melancholia /Anne Anlin Cheng --Invisible Ellison : the fight to be a Negro leader /Tim Parrish --Ellison's experimental attitude and the technologies of illumination /John S. Wright --Female iconography in Invisible man /Shelly Eversley --Chaos not quite controlled : Ellison's uncompleted transit to Juneteenth /Kenneth W. Warren --Ralph Ellison, Hannah Arendt, and the meaning of politics /Ross Posnock --Dry bones /Eric J. Sundquist.
Ralph Ellison
Ellison, Ralph, 1914-1994 -- Criticism and interpretation