Global Ralph Ellison
This essay collection begins the vast project that is the global history of Ralph Ellison’s life and work. It examines how and why this avowedly ‘American’ author read literature and scholarship from across the world and has in turn been widely read outside the borders of the USA, including South Africa, the USSR/Russia, Germany and Japan.
This essay collection begins the vast project that is the global history of Ralph Ellison’s life and work. It examines how and why this avowedly ‘American’ author read literature and scholarship from across the world and has in turn been widely read outside the borders of the USA, including South Africa, the USSR/Russia, Germany and Japan.
| ISBN: | 9781789974942 |
|---|---|
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 316 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Conner, Marc C. Roynon, Tessa |
| Verlag: | Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers |
| Veröffentlicht: | 13.09.2021 |
| Untertitel: | Aesthetics and Politics Beyond US Borders |
| Schlagworte: | Aaron Aesthetics Boehmer Borders Buthelezi Collis Conner Daley Dostoevsky Elleke |
TESSA ROYNON is in her final year as a Senior Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. She also works as founding Librarian at The Swan School, Oxford. Internationally renowned for her work on Toni Morrison, she has also published widely on and taught numerous other American novelists including Willa Cather, Ralph Ellison, Jeffrey Eugenides, William Faulkner and Marilynne Robinson. Her most recent book is The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction (2021).MARC C. CONNER is the President of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. His books include The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison (edited with John Callahan, 2019), which was selected as a New York Times «notable book» for 2020. He has published and lectured widely on Ralph Ellison, Charles Johnson, James Joyce, Toni Morrison, and Irish fiction and drama on screen. He serves as founding member and secretary/treasurer of The Ralph Ellison Society.