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Shadowing Ralph Ellison This page intentionally left blank John S. Wright Shadowing Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison University Press of Mississippi / JACKSON Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Copyright © 2006 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First edition 2006 (cid:1) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wright, John. Shadowing Ralph Ellison / John Wright. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-57806-850-9 (alk. paper) 1. Ellison, Ralph—Criticism and interpretation. 2. African Americans in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PS3555.L625Z96 2006 818’.5409—dc22 2006003519 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available For Boyd and Mae, Martha and Wilmette, Beryl and Lock, Warren and Katherine, Fanny and Ralph This page intentionally left blank Dance and mask collect their greasepaint, idioms stand on bandstand, in stove- pipe pants of riverman, gambling shoes, gold-tooth venom vexing sundown, the choir at sunrise-service cleansing a life on a jim crow funeral car. The fi rst true phrase sings out in barnyard; the hunt in books for quail. —MICHAEL S. HARPER Going to the Territory: Icons of Geography of the Word: A Meditation on the Life and Times of Ralph Waldo Ellison This page intentionally left blank Contents xi Acknowledgments xv Chronology of Ralph Ellison’s Life, Contacts, and of Relevant Events 3 Prologue Orienting Metaphors for a Metaphysical Manhunt 13 Chapter One Dedicated Dreamer, Consecrated Acts: Shadowing Ellison 79 Chapter Two The Conscious Hero and the Rites of Man: Ellison’s War 131 Chapter Three Ellison’s Spiritual Technologies 161 Chapter Four The Man of Letters and the Unending Conversation 233 Epilogue The Last Gestalt: Ellison’s Unfi nished Business 239 Notes 245 Bibliography 259 Index ix
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