{"product_id":"approaches-to-teaching-the-works-of-ralph-ellison","title":"Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison","description":"\u003cb\u003eUnsparingly honest writings about America and race\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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 race, art, and activism in American life. He contended with other writers of his day in his examination of the entrenched racism in society, and his writing continues to inform national conversations in letters and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eApproaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison\u003c\/i\u003e will help instructors in colleges, high schools, and prisons teach not only the indispensable \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e but also Ellison's short stories, his essays, and the two editions of his second, unfinished novel, \u003ci\u003eJuneteenth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThree Days before the Shooting . . .\u003c\/i\u003e . In considering Ellison's works in relation to jazz, technology, humor, politics, queerness, and disability, this volume mirrors the breadth of Ellison's own life, which extended from the Jim Crow era through the Black Power movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume contains discussion of Ellison's \"What America Would Be Like without Blacks,\" \"Flying Home,\" \"Cadillac Flambé,\" and \"An Extravagance of Laughter\" as well as works by James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, and Richard Wright.","brand":"Modern Language Association of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53997117440344,"sku":null,"price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781603296724_06fb09d3-e312-458a-b4f3-3914384d71d0.jpg?v=1777975253","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/approaches-to-teaching-the-works-of-ralph-ellison","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}