A selective list of online literary criticism for Ralph Ellison, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Bellow, Saul. Man Underground: A review of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man by novelist Saul Bellow, from Commentary, June 1952. At Dr. Al Filreis web site
Butler, Robert J. (ed.) A review of The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison (Greenwood Press, 2000) In African American Review, Winter, 2001, reviewed by Kerry McSweeney
Butler, Robert. A review of John F. Callahan, ed. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook (Oxford UP, 2004). African American Review, Fall, 2005
Callahan, John F. and Christopher C. De Santis. "Some cord of kinship stronger and deeper than blood": An Interview with John F. Callahan, Editor of Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth - Interview in African American Review, Winter, 2000
Callahan, John F. (ed.) Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook. (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004). Reviewed in African American Review, Fall, 2005 by Robert Butler
Early, Gerald. Decoding Ralph Ellison, in Dissent, Summer 1997
Eichelberger, Julia. Review of Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty. (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1999) In African American Review, Winter, 2000 by Michael Kreyling
Hobson, Christopher Z. "Invisible Man and African American radicalism in World War II." African American Review, Fall, 2005
Jackson, Lawrence. Ralph Ellison: Emergence of a Genius (John Wiley, 2001) Reviewed in Black Issues Book Review, 11/1/01 by Robert Fleming
Kim, Daniel Y. "Invisible desires: Homoerotic racism and its homophobic critique in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" In Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 1997
Mazurek, Raymond A. Writer on the left: Class and race in Ellison's early fiction, in College Literature, Fall 2002
Nadel, Alan. Publisher's blurb for Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (Univ. of Iowa Press, 1991)
Nadel, Alan. "Ralph Ellison and the American Canon"American Literary History - Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 2001, pp. 393-404
Neighbors, Jim. "Plunging history: naming and self-possession in Invisible Man." African American Review, 6/22/02
Reuben, Paul R. Primary and secondary bibliography for Ralph Ellison, from Dr. Reuben's bibliography web site
Saul, Scott. A review of Juneteenth in the Boston Review, 1999
Shinn, Christopher A. "Masquerade, magic, and carnival in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" - Critical Essay in African American Review, Summer, 2002
Sundquist , Eric J. Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. (Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995) Reviewed in MELUS, Spring, 1999 by David Goldstein-Shirley
Search findarticles.com for additional articles on Ralph Ellison which were previously published by reputable magazines and journals.
An introduction to Ralph Ellison, includes brief secondary bibliography, from Books and Writers, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
A biography of Ralph Ellison and some analysis, from Survey of American Literature, 1992
A Teacher's Guide to Ralph Ellison from textbook publisher Heath
A very brief biography of Ralph Ellison from the Black Collegian Online
Discussion questions for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, from publisher Random House
Discussion questions for Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, from Random House
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