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Ralph Ellison Biografía y Hechos

Ralph Ellison (Oklahoma City, 1 de marzo de 1914[1]​-Nueva York, 16 de abril de 1994) fue un escritor y docente. Amigo de Saul Bellow, Ellison es considerado uno de los novelistas estadounidenses más influyentes de la posguerra, sobre todo en la obra de Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut y Joseph Heller, entre otros.[2]​ El crítico literario Harold Bloom le considera el «heredero legítimo de Melville y Dostoievski, de T. S. Eliot y Hemingway, de Faulkner y Malraux»[3]​ y se refiere al «esplendor estético» de su novela El hombre invisible,[3]​ publicada en 1952 y ganadora del National Book Award. Vida Vivió en Oklahoma en su juventud, estudiando en escuelas públicas y padeciendo el ambiente como tantos afroamericanos. Tras recibir una beca, Ellison pudo centrarse en la música, su afición temprana; entre 1933 y 1936 estuvo para ello en el Tuskegee Institute, especializándose en la trompeta. Tras encontrarse con Richard Wright en Nueva York, quien le pidió una crítica literaria, se dedicará a la escritura. Desde 1939 empezó a publicar artículos, relatos y ensayos en diversas revistas. Sirvió en la marina mercante durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y profesó una cátedra sobre folklore y cultura afroamericana en distintas universidades. Con una beca Rosenwald, de 1945, pudo dedicarse a redactar su voluminosa novela inicial, que le consagró, Invisible man (El hombre invisible), 1952, y una serie de ensayos y artículos titulada Shadow and act (1964) (Sombra y acto). Al año siguiente su novela ganó el National Book Award y lo convirtió en el escritor negro más importante de su generación. Su protagonista es un negro sin nombre que en primera persona expresa la dura realidad social de los Estados Unidos de entonces y va tomando conciencia de cómo la sociedad lo aparta de su seno y lo ningunea. No dejó en lo sucesivo su escritura, pero suele recordarse por su docencia: dictó un curso en Salzburgo en 1954; dio clases de literatura en el Bard College (1957-1961) y en la Universidad de Chicago (1961). Entre otros intereses suyos estuvo la escultura, la fotografía y la audioelectrónica. Logró una beca "Prix de Rome" de la Academia Norteamericana de las Artes. Fue conocido en Europa por sus libros y conferencias. Fue miembro directivo del PEN Club y del Instituto de Estudios de Jazz. Su obra Su fama nació al publicarse su extensa novela El hombre invisible, aparecida en 1952 (Barcelona, Lumen, 1966). Invisible Man trata las relaciones de diferencia racial en Estados Unidos en el siglo XX. Por su única novela ganó el prestigioso premio National Book Award, en dicha categoría de ese año. Aunque se publicaron algunos ensayos y relatos breves en periódicos tras El hombre invisible, el nombre de Ralph Ellison está ligado a su novela más famosa. Su segunda novela no estaba terminada cuando murió. Su casa padeció un incendio en donde perdió la totalidad del nuevo libro Juneteeth, por lo que comenzó a escribirla nuevamente. Sin embargo, tras la pancreatitis que detuvo su vida en 1994, sus herederos publicaron esa pieza, también de considerable tamaño, Juneteenth en 1999, haciendo una recopilación de casi 400 páginas sobre las más de 2000 que escribió a lo largo de 40 años. Referencias Entrevista con R. Ellison, en El oficio de escritor, México, Era, 1970, que recopila parte de lo publicado hasta entonces por The Paris Review. . Descubre los libros populares de Ralph Ellison. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Ralph Ellison

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  • Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope sinopsis y comentarios

    Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope

    Lucas E. Morel

    “This superb [essay] collection enables readers of Invisible Man to appreciate the subtleties of its cultural and political commentary.” Journal of American StudiesAn important col...

  • Night Hawks sinopsis y comentarios

    Night Hawks

    Charles Johnson

    From National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, “the celebrated novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and essayist…comes a small treasure, one to be read and considered and ...

  • Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist sinopsis y comentarios

    Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist

    Michael Germana

    Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist examines Ralph Ellison's body of work as an extended and everevolving expression of the author's philosophy of temporalitya philosophy synthesi...

  • A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "King of the Bingo Game" sinopsis y comentarios

    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "King of the Bingo Game"

    The Gale Group

    A study guide for Ralph Ellison's "King of the Bingo Game", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this c...

  • Go Down Moses And Other Stories sinopsis y comentarios

    Go Down Moses And Other Stories

    William Faulkner

    Seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small ci...

  • The Human Stain sinopsis y comentarios

    The Human Stain

    Philip Roth

    'An extraordinary book bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday TelegraphPhilip Roth's brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of pos...

  • Middle Passage sinopsis y comentarios

    Middle Passage

    Charles Johnson

    A twentyfifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Awardwinning masterpiece"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and MobyDick…heroic in proportion…fiction that ...

  • Birth of a Dream Weaver sinopsis y comentarios

    Birth of a Dream Weaver

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

    ‘Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time’ Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2...

  • Go Set a Watchman sinopsis y comentarios

    Go Set a Watchman

    Harper Lee

    A landmark new novel from Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prizewinning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twentysixyearold Jean Louise Finch...

  • Jazz Country sinopsis y comentarios

    Jazz Country

    Horace A. Porter

    Horace Porter is the chair of African American World Studies and professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Stealing Fire: The Art and Protest of Jame...

  • Invisible Criticism sinopsis y comentarios

    Invisible Criticism

    Alan Nadel

    In 1952 Ralph Ellison won the National Book Award for his Kafkaesque and claustrophobic novel about the life of a nameless young black man in New York City. Although Invisible Ma...

  • Ralph Eugene Ellison v. State sinopsis y comentarios

    Ralph Eugene Ellison v. State

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas No. 24988

    Appellant for the first time now urges that the trial court inadvertently in his charge changed the offense for which appellant was being tried from an assault with int...

  • Voices in Our Blood sinopsis y comentarios

    Voices in Our Blood

    Jon Meacham, Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker & James Baldwin

    An unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strengthincluding Ma...

  • A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal; or, The Invisible Man" sinopsis y comentarios

    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal; or, The Invisible Man"

    The Gale Group

    A study guide for Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal; or, The Invisible Man", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. Designed with busy students in...

  • Captain Canot: Twenty Years of an African Slave Ship sinopsis y comentarios

    Captain Canot: Twenty Years of an African Slave Ship

    Brantz Mayer & Théodore Canot

    "Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver" is a biography of Captain Theodore Canot written and edited from his journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz M...

  • A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "Juneteenth" sinopsis y comentarios

    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "Juneteenth"

    The Gale Group

    A study guide for Ralph Ellison's "Juneteenth", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Novels for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this concise study guide ...

  • Fifty Years in Chains-Life of an American Slave sinopsis y comentarios

    Fifty Years in Chains-Life of an American Slave

    Charles Ball

    "Fifty Years in Chains" is an autobiography of a fugitive slave,Charles Ball, where he describes his life as a slave under various masters and his service in the Chesapeake...

  • Ralph Ellison v. Bunker Hill Company sinopsis y comentarios

    Ralph Ellison v. Bunker Hill Company

    Supreme Court of Idaho No. 11933

    Per Curiam. This is an appeal from a denial of workmen's compensation benefits by the Industrial Commission. We affirm. This case was previously before the Court, 96 Idaho 317, 528...

  • Ralph Ellison and the Politics of the Novel sinopsis y comentarios

    Ralph Ellison and the Politics of the Novel

    William H Rice

    In this engaging study, H. William Rice illuminates the mystery that is Ralph Ellison: the author of one complex, important novel who failed to complete his second; a black intelle...

  • Ralph Ellison in Progress sinopsis y comentarios

    Ralph Ellison in Progress

    Adam Bradley

    Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent AfricanAmerican author of the twentieth century, though he published only one novel, 1952’s Invisible Man. He enjoyed a highly successful career...

  • Weights and Measures sinopsis y comentarios

    Weights and Measures

    Joseph Roth

    'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz leaves his beloved AustroHungari...

  • A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "Shadow and Act" sinopsis y comentarios

    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "Shadow and Act"

    The Gale Group

    A study guide for Ralph Ellison's "Shadow and Act", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this con...

  • Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man sinopsis y comentarios

    Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

    Anke Balduf

    The Quest · can be defined as a voyage with a goal, a “Suchwanderung”. · the goal is usually a treasured item or one’s own soul. · 3 major parts: the departure, the voyage with ...

  • Vogue Essentials: Heels sinopsis y comentarios

    Vogue Essentials: Heels

    Gail Rolfe

    'Rolfe explores the fascinating link between heels and both physical and psychological power. Divided into four shoe categories and accompanied by archival images from the pages of...

  • Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America sinopsis y comentarios

    Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America

    Timothy Parrish

    Ralph Ellison has long been admired as the author of one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man. Yet he has also been dismissed by some criti...

  • The "Art and Protest" in Ralph Ellison's "Anticommunist Rhetoric" (Invisible Man) (Critical Essay) sinopsis y comentarios

    The "Art and Protest" in Ralph Ellison's "Anticommunist Rhetoric" (Invisible Man) (Critical Essay)

    The Western Journal of Black Studies

    Ralph Ellison (1955) once said that he "recognized no dichotomy between art and protest" (p.58). Several years later, he added that protest in his novel, Invisible Man (1952), "is ...

  • The Warmth of Other Suns sinopsis y comentarios

    The Warmth of Other Suns

    Isabel Wilkerson

    'A landmark piece of nonfiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration o...

  • Race sinopsis y comentarios

    Race

    Toni Morrison

    An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century’s primary chroniclers of the African American experience.Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrativ...

  • Modern American Memoirs sinopsis y comentarios

    Modern American Memoirs

    Annie Dillard

    "[In] this anthology of wellchosen excerpts by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers....the truth of their lives shines from every beautifully, often courageously composed page."...

  • Handing One Another Along sinopsis y comentarios

    Handing One Another Along

    Robert Coles, Trevor Hall & Vicki Kennedy

    In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostere...

  • Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green: A Runaway Slave From Kentucky sinopsis y comentarios

    Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green: A Runaway Slave From Kentucky

    Jacob D. Green

    "Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green" is one of the "lost" voices and his story is one of the many that should be heard. Jacob in particular gave lectures at schoo...

  • A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" sinopsis y comentarios

    A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"

    The Gale Group

    A study guide for Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Novels for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this concise study gui...

  • Ralph Ellison sinopsis y comentarios

    Ralph Ellison

    Arnold Rampersad

    Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison’s str...

  • The Man Who Lived Underground sinopsis y comentarios

    The Man Who Lived Underground

    Richard Wright

    AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4's OPEN BOOKThe 'propulsive, haunting' and 'gripping' (Oprah) rediscovered classic that exposes the dark heart of America for an inncocent Black man on the r...

  • New Boy sinopsis y comentarios

    New Boy

    Tracy Chevalier

    ‘A compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue’ Daily ExpressThe bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealous...

  • The History of American Abolitionism (1787-1861) sinopsis y comentarios

    The History of American Abolitionism (1787-1861)

    Felix Gregory De Fontaine

    History of American abolitionism; its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, insurr...

  • Those Bones Are Not My Child sinopsis y comentarios

    Those Bones Are Not My Child

    Toni Cade Bambara

    'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni MorrisonZala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlan...

  • Jazz power. Anthropologie de la condition noire chez Ralph Ellison. sinopsis y comentarios

    Jazz power. Anthropologie de la condition noire chez Ralph Ellison.

    Emmanuel Parent

    La vie de Ralph Ellison (19131994) est exceptionnelle. Né en Oklahoma, six ans seulement après le rattachement de ce territoire indien à l'Union, il est l'enfant de multiples migra...

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl sinopsis y comentarios

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Harriet Jacobs

    "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave Harriet Ann Jacobs. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by u...

  • The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament sinopsis y comentarios

    The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament

    Thomas Clarkson

    "The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of African SlaveTrade by the British Parliament " contains a unique contemporary account of the aboli...

  • The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison sinopsis y comentarios

    The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan & Saul Bellow

    Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticis...

  • The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison sinopsis y comentarios

    The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan & Marc C. Conner

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insig...

  • The Letters of Shirley Jackson sinopsis y comentarios

    The Letters of Shirley Jackson

    Shirley Jackson, Laurence Jackson Hyman & Bernice M. Murphy

    A bewitchingly brilliant collection of neverbeforepublished letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill HouseNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ...

  • Postmodernist Features in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man sinopsis y comentarios

    Postmodernist Features in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

    Nina Dietrich

    In an attempt to place Ralph Waldo Ellison’s novel Invisible Man within a Modernist framework, Berndt Ostendorf writes, ‘Ellison … is a “Spätling,” a latecomer to Modernism. … Elli...

  • Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner sinopsis y comentarios

    Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner

    Randy Boyagoda

    Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence. Inspired by the unexpected lines of influen...

  • Mumbo Jumbo sinopsis y comentarios

    Mumbo Jumbo

    Ishmael Reed

    Ishmael Reed's inspired comic fable of the ragtime era hailed by Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred greatest books of the Western canonAmerica, 1920s. A plague is spreading,...

  • Recitatif sinopsis y comentarios

    Recitatif

    Toni Morrison

    'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine EvaristoTwyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roomma...

  • Tuesday Nights in 1980 sinopsis y comentarios

    Tuesday Nights in 1980

    Molly Prentiss

    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEA dazzling literary debut about three lives colliding in 80s downtown New YorkOn the eve of 1980, downtown New York is t...

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison sinopsis y comentarios

    Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison

    Tracy Floreani

    One of the most important American authors and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Ralph Ellison had a keen and unsentimental understanding of the relationship between r...

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison sinopsis y comentarios

    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison

    Ross Posnock

    Ralph Ellison's classic 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important and controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion pro...