Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke

Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9780813932170
ISBN-13 : 0813932173
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Book Synopsis Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke by : Bryan Crable

Download or read book Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke written by Bryan Crable and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke focuses on the little-known but important friendship between two canonical American writers. The story of this fifty-year friendship, however, is more than literary biography; Bryan Crable argues that the Burke-Ellison relationship can be interpreted as a microcosm of the American "racial divide." Through examination of published writings and unpublished correspondence, he reconstructs the dialogue between Burke and Ellison about race that shaped some of their most important works, including Burke's A Rhetoric of Motives and Ellison's Invisible Man. In addition, the book connects this dialogue to changes in American discourse about race. Crable shows that these two men were deeply connected, intellectually and personally, but the social division between white and black Americans produced hesitation, embarrassment, mystery, and estrangement where Ellison and Burke might otherwise have found unity. By using Ellison’s nonfiction and Burke’s rhetorical theory to articulate a new vocabulary of race, the author concludes not with a simplistic "healing" of the divide but with a challenge to embrace the responsibility inherent to our social order. American Literatures Initiative


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