Vol. 54 No. 3 (2015)

Published July 1, 2015
The Ralph Ellison Issue

Issue Introduction

Matthew Calihman, Tracy Floreani, A Yęmisi Jimoh
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Guest Editor's Introduction
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Articles

AmsJ Editors
c, 1-4
Front Matter
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Myka Tucker Abramson
9-21
Blueprints: Invisible Man and the Housing Act of 1949
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Kasia Boddy
23-34
"Fighting Words": Ralph Ellison and Len Zinberg
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J. J. Butts
35-49
Pattern and Chaos: Ralph Ellison and the Federal Writers' Project
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Sterling Lecater Bland Jr.
51-62
Being Ralph Ellison: Remaking the Black Public Intellectual in the Age of Civil Rights
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John S. Wright
63-82
The Confederacy of Sages andthe Agon of Black Power: Ellison's Hidden Heart
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Lena Hill
83-100
Staging Political Responsibility: Ralph and Fanny Ellison's Appeal to Visual Arts
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Keith Byerman
101-114
“I Did Not Learn Their Names”: Female Characters in the Short Fiction of Ralph Ellison
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Paul Devlin
115-126
Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, and Two Representations of Live Jazz Performance
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Casey Hayman
127-152
"Black Is . . . Black Ain't": Ralph Ellison's Meta-Black Aesthetic and the "End" of African American Literature
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Personal Essays and Creative Commemorations

John F. Callahan
153-156
Opening Comments
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Phyllis E. Bernard
157-159
A Visit to the Village Elder: From Deep Deuce to Harlem and Back Again
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Todd Weeks
161-168
Sound and Meaning: Ralph Ellison's Record Collection
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Hugh Hawkins
169-174
Ralph Ellison as Neighbor
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Horace Porter
175-184
Second Novel No End: An Open Letter to Ralph Ellison
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Terrance Hayes
185-186
How to Draw an Invisible Man
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Book Reviews

AmsJ Editors
187-192
Notes to Contributors
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