J.D.塞林格(1919～?),美国“遁世”作家

作者：  (美)塞林格(Salinger,J.D.)著;施咸荣译

出版社：漓江出版社,1983.7,1992.5重印)

简介： 作者除发表过一些短篇小说外，迄今只写过这一部长篇小说，与另一部黑人作家Ralph Ellison的The Invisable Man一起被认为是二战后当代美国文学中的“现代经典”。在美国社会和文学界产生了巨大影响。小说一出版，就受到国内青少年的热烈欢迎，认为它道出了自己的心声。一时大、中学校的校园里到处都模仿小说主人公霍尔顿-他们在大冬天身穿风衣，倒戴着红色鸭舌帽，学着霍尔顿的言语动作。甚至在60年代初期，外国学者只要跟美国学生一谈到文学，他们就马上提出了《麦田里的守望者》。不同的青年、家长和评论家，往往从不同的角度对此书作出不同的评价。有过两种截然相反的意见：一种意见颂扬此书，把它说得天花乱坠，认为成人通过本书可以增加对青少年的了解，青年人在阅读本书后则能增加对生活的认识，使自己对丑恶的现实提高警惕，并促使自己去选择一条自爱的道路；另一种意见严厉批评本书，把它看作洪水猛兽，说主人公满嘴粗话，张口“他妈的”，闭口“混账”，读书不用功，还抽烟、酗酒、搞女人，从而认为本书内容“猥亵”、“渎神”。

Invisible Man

作者：  (美)Ralph Ellison原著;[美]Selena Ward，[美]Brian Phillips导读;高晶译

出版社：天津科技翻译出版公司,2003

简介：本书以经典性和流行性并存的名著《隐形人》为素材，以明晰的风格和地道的语言而著称。本书包括著作的创作背景，人物分析，主题解析，篇章讲解，重要引文释义，作品档案，并且附有相关的思考题，推荐的论文题，阅读后的小测验，要点注释，以及推荐阅读篇目。 本书的编排使你不仅仅停留在对名著内容上的了解，更可迅速、全面、深入地掌握著作的全部资料，同时也满足了对文化做进一步了解和研究的需求。 蓝星精辟、明晰的编写风格将“半天阅读一本名著”的想法变为现实，帮你在有限的闲暇内阅读更多的书，在地道的语言环境中迅速提高英语水平，丰富文学内涵，增加谈资。 “哈佛蓝星双语名著导读”源自哈佛大学，学生们将名著阅读与文学学习融会贯通，编写成为蓝星笔记，成为风行全美的名著速读指南。 蓝星笔记以导读的形式、明晰的风格带你体验“由厚变薄一由薄变厚”的神奇阅读之旅，将“半天阅读一本名著”的想法变为现实。让你在有限的闲中读更多的书。 精挑细选的50本名著，精辟地道的当代英语，在有限的时间内迅速提高英语水平，增加文学内涵，丰富谈资。 蓝星闪耀，照你前行。更多>>

Invisible Man

作者：  (美)拉尔夫·埃里森(Ralph Ellison)著

出版社：外语教学与研究出版社,2000

简介：《看不见的人》的主人公是个年轻的黑人，竭尽全力想得到别人的承认，想“使人看见他”。他做过“老实的黑人”，试图在美国工业里为自己找一席之地，使自己成为那种杨器上一个合用的齿轮；他曾经加入“兄弟会”，使自己依附于左派政治，他尝试过的每一件事情，似乎都能使一个黑人在羡国生活里处于被人看见的地位，但是，这些事情没有一件能使他进入理想的精神文明，所以他现在宁愿做个地下人……。 外国文学经典——原汁原味的英语，适合英语专业大中专生及英语阅读爱好者。 安徒生童话 苔丝 哈克贝利·费恩历险记 呼啸山庄 红字 名利场(上下) 爱玛 远离尘嚣 傲慢与偏见 绿野仙踪 小公主 傲慢与偏见 福尔摩斯探案集1:血字的研究 四签名 福尔摩斯探案集2:福尔摩斯历险记 福尔摩斯探案集3:福尔摩斯回忆录 福尔摩斯探案集4:福尔摩斯归来 福尔摩斯探案集5:巴斯克维尔的猎犬 恐怖谷 福尔摩斯探案集6:福尔摩斯的最后致意 福尔摩斯探案集7:福尔摩斯新探案 汤姆·索亚历险记 雾都孤儿 雾都孤儿 劝导 艰难时世 茶花女 外国文学经典:鲁滨逊漂流记 复活 月亮宝石 双城记 小妇人 茶花女 远大前程 远大前程 红与黑 海底两万里 汤姆·索亚历险记 绿野仙踪 绿野仙踪 复活 包法利夫人 海底两万里 基督山伯爵(套装全3册) 红与黑(英文原版) 三个火枪手(套装上下册) 战争与和平(套装全3册) 诺桑觉寺 安徒生童话 大卫科波菲尔(英文版) 小妇人 包法利夫人 远大前程 远离尘嚣 爱玛 名利场 名利场 卡斯特桥市长 二十世纪外国文学精选 简·萨默斯的日记 宠儿(二十世纪外国文学精选) 霍华德庄园 夜色温柔 纯真年代 看不见的人 占有 日瓦戈医生 日瓦戈医生 走出非洲 城堡 宠儿 洛丽塔 看不见的人 洛丽塔(英文版) 日瓦戈医生 看不见的人 了不起的盖茨比 了不起的盖茨比——20世纪百部最佳小说之一、青年人必读的经典小说 大师经典文库 理想国(英文) 马可波罗游记:英文 乌托邦(英文) 培根论说文集(英文) 忏悔录:英文 梦的解析(英文) 道德经(汉英对照) 论语(汉英对照) 孙子兵法 中国人的精神 宽容(英文) 人类的故事 中国的文艺复兴 中国人的精神(英文版) 人类的故事(英文版 房龙著) 梦的解析(英文版)(弗洛伊德著) 理想国 马可波罗游记 乌托邦 培根论说文集 忏悔录 道德经 论语 宽容 中国的文艺复兴(英汉对照) 轻松英语名作欣赏：大话名人 浪漫史诗:鲍蒂卡女王 风云际会:莎士比亚 身后疑云:图坦卡蒙 乱世传奇:圣女贞德 群雄逐鹿:拿破仑 另类成长故事:达尔文 学问人生:爱因斯坦

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简介：The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. With CliffsNotes on Invisible Man, you accompany a young black man in Harlem during his process of self-discovery and individuality. Through a difficult passage into manhood, author Ralph Ellison writes of the alienation of humans in everyday life, yet remains whole and optimistic. This concise supplement to Ellison's Invisible Man helps you understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. In addition to chapter-by chapter summaries and commentaries, other features include Character analyses of major players A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays on the novel's symbolism and setting, profiles of leadership, and more A review section that tests your knowledge Background of the author, including career highlights and literary influences Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure - you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

Juneteenth

作者：  (美)拉尔夫·埃利森(Ralph Ellison)著;谭惠娟，余东译

出版社：译林出版社,2003

简介：　　亚当·桑瑞德，一位来自新英格兰州的参议员在参议院发表演说时被刺客击伤，危在旦夕。令所有自认为了解他的人感到惊讶的是，桑瑞德在临终前请求见的是一位叫希克曼的年长黑人牧师。牧师被请来了，两人单独交谈。从他们的谈话中，随着尘封在他们的记忆深处的往事被一件件唤回，读者终于揭开疑团，看到了一个令人痛心的故事…… 　　 原来，这位美国参议员是一个白人妇女和一个黑人所生，他的父亲是一个身份不明的人，但他的白人母亲却诬陷说，孩子的父亲是希克曼惟一的兄弟巴布。希克曼的兄弟被处以绞刑后，他年迈罹病的母亲也悲愤地离开了人世。然后，这个白人女人将孩子留给了希克曼。希克曼知道，仇恨无法消除兄弟被处绞刑及母亲去世给自己带来的悲痛，因此，他用自己的爱心和牺牲精神抚养这个男孩，并为孩子取名“布里斯”(Bliss意思是“极乐，至福”)，希望他成人后能为消除种族仇恨做出努力。他将自己生活中的大部分精力都赌在这一想法上。 　　 布里斯长大后帮助希克曼主持基督复活仪式。在一次庆祝一八六五年六月十九日黑人解放这一传统节日的宗教活动中，一个白人妇女认出了布里斯，并称他就是她丢失了多年的儿子“卡德沃思”(Cudworth意思是“值得反刍”)，她不顾一切地要将他带走。在场的白人都误认为是希克曼强奸过她，纷纷站出来殴打他。尽管在场的大部分黑人都不相信这是事实，却没一人敢站出来为他申辩。希克曼的身体恢复后，带布里斯去看电影，在电影院里，布里斯幻想他的白人母亲也是一个白人电影明星，于是逃离了养父希克曼，开始了查找自己身份的漫漫旅程。 　　 布里斯的离去使希克曼备受打击，这对他心中的理想是一种考验。希克曼同意抚养这个孩子后，就结束了自己昔日的快乐生活，成了一个单身汉，还将布里斯培养成了一名传教天才。而布里斯长大后为了达到自己自私而世俗的目的，不惜背信弃义、恩将仇报。埃利森通过希克曼这个人物在质问，为什么黑人保姆悉心养大的白人孩子长大后总是会对她们反目为仇?为什么黑人保姆一开始就注定是输家?难道孩子与爱的根基之间的纽带一定要被切断吗? 这是一种普遍现象还是权力结构的需要?但希克曼的爱心超越了理想破灭的痛苦。他不但没有失去，相反还加强了自己的信仰。这个信仰驱使他密切关注这个孩子的事业，特别是当这个孩子成了一个政治家以后。当他得知布里斯处境危险时，这个信仰又驱使他来到华盛顿。即使在参议员生命的最后时刻，希克曼仍无处不在，无时不在地出现在他的思维和行动里。 　　 对布里斯来说，他的出走则是他人生悲剧的开始，因为他脱离了权力的真正来源，即脱离了他的社会根基，脱离了养育了他的黑人们。他不顾一切地要忘却自己的身份，将自己乔装打扮为一个流动电影制片人，把摄影机当做一种遗忘、否定、歪曲和取笑的手段来摆弄，成了骗人的老手；他在白人中探索生活，并成功地改名为“桑瑞德”(Sunraider意思是“冲向太阳的人”)。他利用种族偏见的力量来惩罚黑人的软弱，以谋取自己的权力，最后当上了美国参议员，变成了一个政治恶魔。极具讽刺意味的是，他在政治生涯中登峰造极之时被刺杀了，而行刺者正是他的亲生儿子，是他与一个黑—白—红混色姑娘之间那段短暂的、刻骨铭心的热恋的结果。　　

City codes : reading the modern urban novel /

作者：  by Hana Wirth-Nesher

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简介：City Codes is a study of the representation of the city in the modern novel that takes difference as its point of departure, so that cities are read according to the cultural and social position of the urbanite. These urban narratives are analysed in the context of a cultural repertoire of city codes, from the architectural features of window and street to the social and historical signs of the landmark and the passer-by, with the emphasis on the subject's construction of his or her place as shaped by history, politics, nationality, gender, class and race. The study moves from boundaries inscribed onto the cityscape to distances experienced by the city dwellers; its 'real' and textual cities are Warsaw, Jerusalem, New York, Chicago, Paris, London and Dublin. The novels discussed are by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Amos Oz, Theodore Dreiser, Ralph Ellison, Henry James, Henry Roth, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

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简介：Twenty-three stories by some of the most important writers at work in the middle of the twentieth century, including Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Mary McCarthy and Ralph Ellison. Selected and introduced by Douglas and Sylvia Angus.- If you are a member, please Log In to request it. - Or join the Club and get this book for Free.]" />Post This Book+ ReminderLogin | RegisterISBN-13:9780449300497 ISBN-10:0449300498 Publication Date:11/12/1986 Rating: Currently 3.3/5 Stars. 2

Invisible man

作者：  (美)拉尔夫·艾里森(Ralph Ellison)著;任绍曾等译

出版社：译林出版社,1998

简介：《无形人》的主人公是一个出身贫寒的的美国南方黑人青年。他发奋读书，刻意上进。中学毕业时由于出色的演讲被推荐到一所黑人大学读书，没想到他在接待白人校董时触怒了校董与校长，被逐出校门，来到纽约。他起初拿着“推荐信”，满心希望能找一份体面的工作，可是他的黑人身份使他四处碰壁。纽约街头经历逐渐唤起了他的黑人意识，他深深地体会到作为黑人的自己在白人眼中是“无形无体”的，他以前按白人价值观念所作的努力全是白费。于是他加入了兄弟会，走上街头，用他的演讲作武器，号召黑人群众起来为争取自己的权利而斗争。书中真实地再现了美国社会黑人的生存状况和六十年代的黑人民权运动，出版后反响强烈，曾引起广泛争议。

Invisible man

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简介：A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility

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简介：Includes fiction by Kate Chopin, Gail Godwin, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Faulkner, Grace Paley, Dickens, Melville, Hawthorne, Eudora Welty, Hemingway, Alice Munro, Chekhov, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Anne Porter, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Garcia Marquez, Tillie Olsen, Mark Twain, Poe, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Cade Bambara, John Cheever, Joyce, Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Updike, Yukio Mishima, Louise Erdrich, Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. others. Includes poems by Marge Piercy, Robert Hayden, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, John Donne, Nikki Giovanni, Emily Dickinson, Randall Jarrell, Maxine Kumin, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Richard Wilbur, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Thomas Hardy, David R. Slavitt, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith, Jane Kenyon, William Carlos Williams, Adelaide Crapsey, Walt Whitman, Theodore Roethke, Matthew Arnold, H.D., William Blake, Wilfred Owen, Margaret Atwood, Robert Lowell, Mark Strand, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Bradstreet, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Wordsworth, Robert Graves, May Swenson, Robert Frost, Poe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Eberhart, D.H. Lawrence, Louise Bogan, Robert Browning, Ezra Pound, Leonard Cohen, Galway Kinnell, Richard Armour, Robert Southey, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lewis Carroll, Jean Toomer, Pope, Yeats, A.E. Housman, Ben Jonson, Dorothy Parker, Tennyson, Richard Lovelace, Shakespeare, Basho, Seamus Heaney, Shelley, George Herbert, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Carolyn Forche, Sharon Olds, Keats, W.H. Auden, Robert Bly, Rupert Brooke, Robert Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Countee Cullen, Lucille Clifton, James Dickey, T.S. Eliot, Donald Hall, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, X.J. Kennedy, Audre Lord, Archibald MacLeish, Claude McKay, Christopher Marlowe, Milton, Ogden Nash, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, John Crowe Ransom, Anne Sexton, Delmore Schwartz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Wallace Stevens, Anna Akhmatove, Claribel Alegria, Baudelaire, Garcia Lorca, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Rilke, Sappho, Amy Clampitt, Robert Creeley, Rita Dove, and others. Includes drama and writings on drama by Sophocles, Aristotle, Muriel Rukeyser, Jean Anouilh, Maurice Sagoff, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Freud, Moliere, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Samuel Beckett, Martin Esslin, Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Wole Soyinka, James Gibb, Caryl Churchill, August Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Owen Davis, Susan Glaspell, Eric Bentley, David Savran, Susan Sontag, Judith Fetterley, Annette Kolodny, and others.

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简介：The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the "frame tale"-an inside-the-text storyteller telling a tale to an inside-the-text listener-with the relationship between the outside-the-text writer and reader. The progression is from Chesnutt's 1899 frame texts, in which the black spoken voice is contained by a white narrator/listener, to Bambara's sixties-era example of a "frameless" spoken voice text, to Wideman's neo-frame text of the late 20th century.

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简介：Jazz in American Culture offers an informed and entertaining introduction to jazz - one of the great musical cultures of the world. The book looks at jazz both as a music and as a culture within the wider American context, and aims to open up the subject to the non-specialist. It examines the social and institutional structures that have underpinned the music at particular stages in its history, from the 1930s through to the present, and considers its place as a component of the entertainment industry. Among the musicians introduced are Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday and Lester Young. Peter Townsend's distinctive approach to his subject includes a consideration of representations of jazz in other art forms, including films and literary texts, such as the fiction of Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac and Toni Morrison, and the poetry of Langston Hughes. He also introduces the work of jazz-influenced painters such as Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollock, and discusses the significance of photography in jazz.The book also explores the influence of jazz on other art forms, the 'mythology' of jazz, its place in consumer culture and its relation to a number of issues, such as ethnicity and individualism, that have affected American art and society. This book will be of lasting interest to anyone with a passion for jazz music.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Adam Zachary Newton couples works of prose fiction by African American and Jewish American authors from Henry Roth and Ralph Ellison to Philip Roth and David Bradley. Reading the work of such writers alongside and through one another, Newton offers an original way of juxtaposing two major traditions in American literature and rethinking their sometimes vexing relationship. Newton combines Emmanuel Levinas' ethical philosophy and Walter Benjamin's theory of allegory in shaping an innovative kind of ethical-political criticism. A final chapter addresses the Black/Jewish dimension of the O. J. Simpson trial.   Publisher Summary 2 Reading the work of African American and Jewish American authors alongside and through one another.  

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简介："Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream." "In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ralph Ellison, Russell Banks, Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, N. Scott Momaday, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Julia Alvarez, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Don DeLillo." "Hume explores fictional treatments of the slippage in the immigrant experience between America's promise and its reality. She exposes the political link between contemporary stories of lost innocence and liberalism's inadequacies. She also invites us to look at the literary challenge to scientific materialism in various searches for a spiritual dimension in life."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介：Black Americans are at the heart of the greatest achievements of our history, from music to law, from politics to sports, from literature to religion. Now the two leading African-American intellectuals of our day show us why the twentieth century was The African-American Century, with one hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans from W. E. B. Du Bois to Oprah Winfrey. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West offer their personal picks of the African-American figures who did the most to shape our world. Here we find much-loved figures such as scientist George Washington Carver and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and contemporary favorites such as comedian Richard Pryor, novelist Alice Walker, and golf champion Tiger Woods. We also learn about less well known people such as jockey Jimmy Winkfield, aviator Bessie Coleman, and filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, and recognize the achievements of controversial figures such as activist Angela Davis, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and rap artist Tupac Shakur. Each profile is a lively story in its own right. But taken as a whole, these one hundred stories offer a unique window on the history of the twentieth century. Decade by decade, we marvel at the triumphs of a people who began the century only thirty-five years "up from slavery," and ended it at the top of every field. The result is a moving testament to the humanity and genius of black Americans, both individually and together. The African-American Century reminds us that there would be no American culture without black America. Without Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, or John Coltrane, we would have no jazz. Without Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, or Toni Morrison, we would miss our greatest novels. Without Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, or Althea Gibson, we would have none of our most glorious triumphs in sports. Without Thurgood Marshall, Dr. King, or Barbara Jordan, we would be deprived of the political breakthroughs that affirm and strengthen our democracy. Whether we are laughing with Bill Cosby or dancing to rock 'n' roll, whether we are listening to a great preacher or stunned by the power of a Spike Lee film, whether we are building a business empire or fighting for justice - we are all shaped and influenced by the African-American experience. Written in a lively, accessible style and fully illustrated throughout, The African-American Century is a celebration of black achievement and a tribute to the black struggle for freedom in America that will inspire us for years to come. - Publisher.

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简介：Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American novels. They include well-known works as well as writings recently recovered or acknowledged. The collection features essays on the slave narrative, coming of age, vernacular modernism, and the post-colonial novel to help readers gain a better appreciation of the African American novel's diversity and complexity. - Publisher. This companion presents new essays covering the 150-year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the USA and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and political function of canonical and non-canonical fiction. Chapters examine works by Ralph Ellison, Leon Forrest, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman, and many others. - Back cover.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 An in-depth analysis of the composition of Invisible Man and Ralph Ellison's move away from the radical left during his writing of the novel between 1945 and 1952.   Publisher Summary 2 In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between African American writers and the left during the early years of the cold war. Foley scrutinized thousands of pages of drafts and notes for the novel, as well as the author’s early journalism and fiction, published and unpublished. While Ellison had cut his ties with the Communist left by the time he began Invisible Manin 1945, Foley argues that it took him nearly seven years to wrestle down his leftist consciousness (and conscience) and produce the carefully patterned cold war text that won the National Book Award in 1953 and has since become a widely taught American classic. She interweaves her account of the novel’s composition with the history of American Communism, linking Ellison’s political and artistic transformations to his distress at the Communists’ wartime policies, his growing embrace of American nationalism, his isolation from radical friends, and his recognition, as the cold war heated up, that an explicitly leftist writer could not expect to have a viable literary career. Foley suggests that by expunging a leftist vision from Invisible Man, Ellison rendered his novel not only less radical but also less humane than it might otherwise have been.  

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简介：Cross-Rhythms investigates the literary uses and effects of blues and jazz in African-American literature of the twentieth century. Texts by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed variously adopt or are consciously informed by a jazz aesthetic; this aesthetic becomes part of a strategy of ethnic identification and provides a medium with which to consider the legacy of trauma in African-American history. These diverse writers are all thoroughly immersed in a socio-cultural context and a literary aesthetic that embodies shifting conceptions of ethnic identity across the twentieth century. The emergence of blues and jazz is, likewise, a crucial product of, as well as catalyst for, this context, and in their own aesthetic explorations of notions of ethnicity these writers consciously engage with this musical milieu. By examining the highly varied manifestations of a jazz aesthetic as possibly the fundamental common denominator which links these writers, this study attempts to identify an underlying unifying principle. As the different writers write against essentializing or organic categories of race, the very fact of a shared engagement with jazz sensibilities in their work redefines the basis of African-American communal identity. - Publisher.

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简介：    The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions.     "Backgrounds" begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes referred to as another telling of The Souud and the Fury, and includes a selection of Faulkner's letters, excerpts from two Faulkner interviews, a memoir by Faulkner's friend Ben Wasson, and both versions of Faulkner's 1933 "Introduction" to the novel.     "Cultural and Historical Contexts" presents four different perspectives, two of them new to the Second Edition, on the South's place in history. Taken together, these works by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Carolyn Porter, and Robert Penn Warren provide the reader with valuable contexts for understanding the novel.     "Criticism" includes seventeen essays on The Sound and the Fury that collectively trace changes in the way we have viewed this novel over the last four decades. Among the critics represented (six of whom are new to the Second Edition) are Jean-Paul Sartre, Ralph Ellison, Olga W. Vickery, Cleanth Brooks, Michael Millgate, John Irwin, Myra Jehlen, David Minter, John Matthews, Thadious M. Davis, Wesley Morris, Minrose G. Gwin, Andrd Bleikasten, and Philip M. Weinstein. The Selected Bibliography has been thoroughly revised for this edition.

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简介：Includes writings by Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, Frances Trollope, Fanny Kemble, Philip Hone, Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Margaret Fuller, George G. Foster, Grant Thorburn, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, George Templeton Strong, Frederick Law Olmsted, Ernest Duvergier de Hauranne, Fanny Fern, Mark Twain, James D. McCabe, Wong Chin Foo, Jose Marti, William Dean Howells, Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, Abraham Gahan, Theodore Dreiser, George W. Plunkett and William L. Riorden, Maxim Gorky, Henry James, O. Henry, James Weldon Johnson, James Huneker, Sara Teasdale, Djuna Barnes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Willa Cather, Claude McKay, Marianne Moore, Paul Rosenfeld, Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Hart Crane, Stephen Graham, Al Smith, Helen Keller, Paul Morand, Lincoln Steffens, Dawn Powell, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Christopher Morley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Thomas Wolfe, Damon Runyon, Henry Miller, Charles Reznikoff, A.J. Liebling, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, John McNulty, Irwin Shaw, Mary McCarthy, Zora Neale Hurston, Red Smith, David Schubert, Weldon Kees, E.B. White, Bernard Malamud, Anzia Yezierska, William Carlos Williams, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Joseph Mitchell, William S. Burroughs, Bernardo Vega, Frank O'Hara, Loren Eiseley, Robert Moses, John Cheever, Ned Rorem, Jane Jacobs, James Merrill, Edwin Denby, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), George Oppen, James Baldwin, Harvey Shapiro, Gay Talese, Louis Auchincloss, Mario Puzo, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jimmy Cannon, James Schuyler, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Hardwick, Lewis Mumford, Kate Simon, Edward Rivera, Joyce Johnson, Lionel Abel, E.L. Doctorow, Ralph Ellison, Oscar Hijuelos, and Vivian Gornick.