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Gathers essays, reviews, criticism, and interviews

A collection of thirteen stories--six of which were unpublished during the author's lifetime--explores the themes of racism and the search for an African-American identity as it ranges from a Harlem bingo parlor to a Depression hobo jungle to Wales during World War II. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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Shot on the Senate floor by a young black man, a dying racist senator summons an elderly black Baptist minister from Oklahoma to his side for a remarkable dialogue that reveals the deeply buried secrets of their shared past and the tragedy that reunites them. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Shot on the Senate floor by a young Black man, a dying racist senator summons an elderly Black Baptist minister from Oklahoma to his side for a remarkable dialogue that reveals the deeply buried secrets of their shared past and the tragedy that reunites them

Product Description: This volume offers students and scholars a rich variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novel and the man who created it. Both Ellison's comments, a number of which appear in print here for the first time, and those of ten distinguished scholars of American and African-American literature take the position that there can be no last word on Invisible Man...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)