TY - BOOK AU - Posnock,Ross TI - The Cambridge companion to Ralph Ellison SN - 9780521827812 U1 - 814 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - African Americans in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index; 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 ER -