One of the most important books in American Literature, Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” is a surrealist satirical socio-political horror novel that attempts to examine the American Black Experience via a series of incidents in the life of the narrator, a nameless black man who claims to be invis...
Juneteenth..."the celebration of a gaudy illusion," regarding Emancipation. And Lord knows Ellison's forty-year effort to complete this novel needed adept assistance from a good editor, John F. Callahan, Ellison's literary executor. But it's no "gaudy illusion."It's a wonderful, entrapping book,...
Ralph Ellison pulls no punches in this collection, and if you have read Invisible Man and/or some of his essays then you will enjoy Flying Home and Other Stories. The stories that provoke the most open dialogue, and provide the most clear view of Ellison's stance, on race are "A Coupla Scalped In...