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Dorothy West: The Living Is Easy, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Living Is Easy, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Dorothy West: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Gwendolyn Brooks: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Epic, The Oral Community, And The Memory Of Emancipation In Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Patrice Rankine Jan 2001

Epic, The Oral Community, And The Memory Of Emancipation In Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Patrice Rankine

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

As the recently published epistolary collection reveals, Ralph Ellison was an unabashed Americanist, for better and for worse. Ellison's faith in American identity and the democratic process, which is evident at the end of Invisible Man in the protagonist's determination to "affirm the principle on which the country was built [and not the men who did the violence]" (574), is again manifest in the posthumous novel, Juneteenth. According to John F. Callahan, Ellison's litearary executor, the novel celebrates "the indivisibility of the American experience" (Juneteeth xvi). James Alan McPherson (the African-American writer to whom Ellison showed a portion …