Book contents
- Ralph Ellison in Context
- Ralph Ellison in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Geographical, Institutional, and Interpersonal Contexts
- Part II Historical, Political, and Cultural Contexts
- Part III Literary and Critical Contexts
- Chapter 20 The Harlem Renaissance
- Chapter 21 Ellison’s Early Writings
- Chapter 22 The Wright School
- Chapter 23 Literary Modernism
- Chapter 24 Beyond Raglan’s Hero: Ellison’s Ritualist Influences
- Chapter 25 Sociology
- Chapter 26 The Soapbox Speech in Ellison’s Fiction
- Chapter 27 Postwar Literary Aesthetics
- Chapter 28 Ellison as Correspondent
- Part IV Reception and Reputation
- Index
Chapter 21 - Ellison’s Early Writings
from Part III - Literary and Critical Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2022
- Ralph Ellison in Context
- Ralph Ellison in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Geographical, Institutional, and Interpersonal Contexts
- Part II Historical, Political, and Cultural Contexts
- Part III Literary and Critical Contexts
- Chapter 20 The Harlem Renaissance
- Chapter 21 Ellison’s Early Writings
- Chapter 22 The Wright School
- Chapter 23 Literary Modernism
- Chapter 24 Beyond Raglan’s Hero: Ellison’s Ritualist Influences
- Chapter 25 Sociology
- Chapter 26 The Soapbox Speech in Ellison’s Fiction
- Chapter 27 Postwar Literary Aesthetics
- Chapter 28 Ellison as Correspondent
- Part IV Reception and Reputation
- Index
Summary
This chapter surveys Ellison’s early (pre-Invisible Man) writings, which fall into four categories: sketches for the Federal Writers Project; journalistic reviews and chapters, in venues ranging from the New Masses to Negro Quarterly; short fiction, mostly unpublished in Ellison’s lifetime; and short fiction and novelistic fragments that remain unpublished to this day.
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- Ralph Ellison in Context , pp. 230 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021