The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison is written by Ralph Ellison and published by Modern Library. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0307797023 (ISBN 10) and 9780307797025 (ISBN 13).

Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”