Riffing With Ralph: Digging For Jazz In Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before The Shooting...
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- February 26, 2019
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Payne, Matt
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of American Studies
- Abstract
- During the course of his career, Ralph Ellison published one masterpiece of fiction, Invisible Man (1952), for which he won the National Book Award. He spent the last forty years of his life working on a novel that remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1994. Even though Ellison viewed himself first and foremost as a writer of fiction, there has been less attention paid to his unfinished novel than to his acclaimed Invisible Man, or, for that matter, even to his classic essay collections, Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986), besides speculation as to the reasons why Ellison failed to complete the work. In 2010, John F. Callahan and Adam Bradley broke this trend when they came together to publish Ellison’s complete work on his second novel into one compilation of epic proportions entitled Three Days Before the Shooting…. This collection represents the life’s work of one of the most cherished American minds of the 20th century and deserves attention and wide readership. The novel can be hard to tackle due to its unfinished status and length of over 1,000 pages, but when one approaches the work with an open mind, it proves to contain some of Ellison’s finest prose and most poignant truths.
- Date of publication
- spring 2014
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- In Copyright
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Ferris, William
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Highest Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 65
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