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Essential Reading: Kenneth Warren on Black History Month
From: University of Chicago
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Kenneth Warren |
 Fathom asked Kenneth Warren, professor of English at the University of Chicago, to recommend three books for Black History Month. His picks include works by celebrated author Ralph Ellison and a recent collection of essays on race and politics in the post-Civil Rights era. |
<a href="javascript:popWindow('http://www.fathom.com/fks/catalog/books.jhtml?itemId=378285','FathomProduct','scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=450,height=300');"><B><i>Invisible Man</i></B></A>
by Ralph Ellison
 The year 2002 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Ellison's novel, which was awarded the National Book Award and has been perennially ranked by critics and scholars as the best American novel published during the last half of the twentieth century. Brilliantly, painfully, and sometimes humorously written, Invisible Man tells the story of a nameless protagonist as he journeys from an all-black southern college to the Harlem of the post-Harlem renaissance era. Through the travails of its narrator, Invisible Man reveals how the ideologies of race so often blind us to our shared humanity. |
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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The year 2002 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Ellison's novel, which was awarded the National Book Award and has been perennially ranked by critics and scholars as the best American novel published during the last half of the twentieth century. Brilliantly, painfully, and sometimes humorously written, Invisible Man tells the story of a nameless protagonist as he journeys from an all-black southern college to the Harlem of the post-Harlem renaissance era. Through the travails of its narrator, Invisible Man reveals how the ideologies of race so often blind us to our shared humanity.
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
by Ralph Ellison, ed. John F. Callahan
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Although Ellison never finished another novel during his lifetime, he published two volumes of essays and he contributed numerous other pieces to various magazines and journals. The Collected Essays edited by Ellison's literary executor John F. Callahan reprints the published volumes and adds previously unpublished pieces. These essays offer insightful commentary on American literature, film, sociology, and the craft of novel writing. The essays, reviews, and writings here also constitute a collective portrait of the artist.
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Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era
by Adolph Reed, Jr.
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Drawing inspiration for his title from Ellison's essay, "The World and the Jug," Adolph Reed, a political scientist at the New School University offers a penetrating assessment of race and politics in the post-Civil Rights era. Written during the period spanning the late 1970s to the early 1990s these sharp, witty, and incisive essays take on the difficult task of understanding the process by which the progressive left has been systematically demobilized and marginalized. They also seek to point out some possibilities, however tentative, for political renewal.
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Kenneth Warren is a professor of English at the University of Chicago, director of the Committee on African and African-American Studies, and author of Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism. |
<a href="javascript:popWindow('http://www.fathom.com/fks/catalog/books.jhtml?itemId=138543','FathomProduct','scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=450,height=300');"><B><i>Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era</i></B></A>
by Adolph Reed, Jr.
Drawing inspiration for his title from Ellison's essay, "The World and the Jug," Adolph Reed, a political scientist at the New School University offers a penetrating assessment of race and politics in the post-Civil Rights era. Written during the period spanning the late 1970s to the early 1990s these sharp, witty, and incisive essays take on the difficult task of understanding the process by which the progressive left has been systematically demobilized and marginalized. They also seek to point out some possibilities, however tentative, for political renewal. |
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