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A discussion with multiple readings from the posthumous novel by Ralph Ellison, edited and arranged by John Callahan. 0:00 Introduction and Summary 4:09 Ellison’s Prose 7:12 Antiphony 10:28 Language of Revival 14:29 Language, Race, Tragedy 18:26 Recommended if you like Recommended if you like: Invisible Man by Ellison Shadow and Act by Ellison, my discussion: • Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison (Brilliant... Going to the Territory by Ellison Flying Home by Ralph Ellison Three Days before the Shooting by Ralph Ellison Lawd Today by Richard Wright Native Son by Richard Wright, my discussion: • Native Son by Richard Wright (Book One: Fear) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner Love by Toni Morrison, my discussion: • Love by Toni Morrison Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James The Known World by Edward P. Jones Ulysses by James Joyce Molloy by Samuel Beckett, my discussion: • Molloy by Samuel Beckett (Trilogy #1) 🇮🇪/ 🇫🇷 My Dinner with Andre, directed by Louis Malle Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Yellow Back Radio Brokedown by Ishmael Reed Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey Omensetter’s Luck by William Gass Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney Minor Notes American Sermons anthology from Library of America #booktube #ralphellison #modernism #africanamericanliterature #williamfaulkner #jamesjoyce

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