Ellison, Ralph

1. Abrams, Robert. "The Ambiguities of Dreaming in Ellison's Invisible Man."In American Literature, Volume 49, No. 4, 1978. pp. 592-603.
   Criticism -- Invisible Man

2. In Allen, Walter. The Modern Novel. New York, Dutton, 1964. pp. 317-321.
   Criticism -- Invisible Man

3. Anderson, Jervis. "Profiles: Going to the Territory." In New Yorker, Volume 52, Nove 22, 1976. pp. 55-108.
   Biography

4. Baker, Houston. "To Move Without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison's Trueblood Episode." In PMLA, Vol. 98, Oct. 1983, ppl 828-845.
   Criticism -- Invisible Man

5. In Balakian, Nona, and Simmons, Charles, eds. The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963. pp. 20-21.
   Criticism -- Invisible Man

6. In Baumbach, Jonathan. The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel. [New York]: New York University Press, 1965. pp. 68-86.
   Criticism -- Invisible Man

7. In Bell, Bernard W. The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. pp. 192-215.
   Criticism -- Works -- Invisible Man

8. Bennett, Stephen. "Violence in Afro-American Fiction: An Hypothesis." In Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 17, No. 2, Summer 1971. pp. 221-228.
   Criticism -- Invisible Man

9. Blake, Susan. "Ritual and Rationalization: Black Folklore in the Works of Ralph Ellison." In PMLA, Vol. 94, 1979, pp. 121-136.
   Criticism -- Works

10. In Bloom, Harold, ed. Major Modern Black American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, c1995. pp. 85-101.
    Criticism -- Works

11. In Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Black American Fiction Writers. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1995. pp. 47-65.
    Criticism -- Works

12. In Bone, Robert A. The Negro Novel in America . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1958. pp. 196-212.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

13. Breit, Harvey. "Talk with Ralph Ellison." In New York Times Book Review, May 4, 1952. pg. 26
    Interview

14. In Bryant, Jerry. The Open Decision. New York, Free Press, 1970. pp. 277-281.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

15. In Callahan, John E. In the African-American Grain: Call-and-Response in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1990. pp. 150-186, see also index.
    Criticism -- Works -- Invisible Man

16. In Cooke, Michael G. Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, c1984. pp. 97-109, see also index.
    Criticism -- Works

17. In Cohen, Sarah Blacher, ed. Comic relief : Humor in Contemporary American Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1978. pp. 110-116.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

18. In Cooke, Michael G., ed. Modern Black Novelists: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, [1971]. pp. 45-78.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

19. Corry, John. "An American Novelist Who Sometimes Teaches." In The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 20, 1966, pp. 54-55, 179-187, 196.
    Biography -- Criticism

20. In Davis, Arthur Paul. From the Dark Tower: Afro-American Writers 1900 to 1960. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974. pp. 207-216.
    Criticism -- Works -- Invisible Man

21. In Dickstein, Morris. Leopards in the Temple. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. pp. 194-210.
    Criticism -- Works -- Going to the Territory -- Invisible Man -- Shadow and Act

22. In Donald, Miles. The American Novel in the Twentieth Century. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978. pp. 146-157.
    Criticism -- Works -- Invisible Man

23. Foley, Barbara. "The Rhetoric of Anticommunism in Invisible Man." In College English, Vol. 59, Sept. 1997, pp. 530-547.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

24. Goede, William. "On Lower Frequencies: The Buried Men in Wright and Ellison." In Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 15, No. 4, Winter 1969-1970. pp. 483-501.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man -- Wright, Richard

25. Griffin, Edward. "Notes from a Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man."In Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 15, No. 2, Oct. 1969. pp. 129-144.
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26. In Gross, Seymour L. Images of the Negro in American Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966. pp. 249-264.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

27. In Hassan, Ihab Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1961. pp. 168-178.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

28. In Hill, Herbert. Anger and Beyond. New York, Harper & Row, 1966. pp. 86-111.
    Criticism -- Works -- Invisible Man

29. In Howe, Irving. Decline of the New. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1970]. pp. 179-181.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

30. Johnston, George Sim. "Man of Letters." In Commentary, 82, No. 6. pp. 71-74.
    Criticism -- Works -- Going to the Territory

31. In Kazin, Alfred. Alred Kazin's America. New York : HarperCollins, c2003. pp. 282-28.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

32. In Kazin, Alfred. Bright Book of Life. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. pp. 245-255.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

33. In Klein, Marcus. After Alienation: American Novels in Mid-Century. Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1965, c1962. pp. 147-195.
    Criticism -- Works -- Invisible Man

34. In Lehan, Richard. Dangerous Crossing. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1973. pp. 150-157.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

35. In Lewis, R. W. B. Literary Reflections. Boston: Northeastern University Press, c1993. pp. 175-187.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

36. Lillard, Stewart. "Ellison's Ambitious Scope in Invisible Man." In English Journal, Volume 58, No. 6, Sept. 1969. pp. 8333-839.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

37. In Littlejohn, David. Black on White: A Critical Survey of Writing by American Negroes. New York: Grossman, 1966. pp. 110-119.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

38. In Ludwig, Jack. Recent American Novelists. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1962. pp. 19-24.
    Criticism -- Works -- "And Hickman Arrives" -- Invisible Man

39. In Lutwack, Leonard. Heroic Fiction: The Epic Tradition and American Novels in the Twentieth Century. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, [1971]. pp. 122-141.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

40. In Madden, David, ed. American Dreams, American Nightmares. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, [1970]. pp. 177-186, 188-196.
    Criticism -- Works -- Invisible Man

41. Marvin, Thomas F. "Children of Legba: Musicians at the Crossroads in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." In American Literature, V. 68, N. 3. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press. pp. 587-608.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

42. In Mooney, Harry J., ed. The Shapeless God. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, c1968. pp. 164-168.
    Criticism -- Works -- Invisible Man

43. In O'Brien, John, ed. Interviews with Black Writers. New York: Liveright, [1973]. pp. 63-77.
    Interviews

44. In Palumbo-Liu, David, editor. The Ethnic Canon. Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1995. pp. 117-139.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

45. In Panichas, George, ed. The Politics of Twentieth-Century Novelists. New York, Hawthorn Books, 1971. pp. 307-315.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

46. In Payne, Ladell. Black Novelists and the Southern Literary Tradition. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, c1981. pp. 80-98.
    Criticism -- Works

47. In Podhoretz, Norman. Norman Podhoretz Reader. New York : Free Press, c2004. pp. 349-372.
    Criticism -- Works -- Invisible Man

48. "Ralph Ellison." In The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. 3. New York : Picador : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006-. pp. 1-18.
    Interview

49. In Rosenblatt, Roger. Black Fiction. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. pp. 184-199.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

50. In Skillion, Anne, ed. Introducing the Great American Novel. New York: W. Morrow, c1988. pp. 219-226.
    Criticism -- Works -- Invisible Man

51. In Wegelin, Christof, ed. The American Novel: Criticism and Background Readings. New York, Free Press, 1971. pp. 503-544.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

52. West, Anthony. "Black Man's Burden." In New Yorker, Vol 28, No. 15, May 31, 1952. pp. 93-96.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

53. In West, Anthony. Principles & Persuasions. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1957. pp. 212-218.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

54. In Williams, Sherley Anne. Give Birth to Brightness. New York, Dial Press, 1972. pp. 86-96.
    Criticism -- Invisible Man

55. In Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series. New York: Viking Press, 1963. pp. 317-334.
    Interviews

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