A complete collection of essays, reviews, interviews, and criticism by the acclaimed author of Invisible Man includes the collections Shadow and Act and Going to the Territory, along with newly discovered and previously uncollected works, covering such topics as literature, folklore, jazz, black culture, and the African-American experience. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.” Biographical Note v Acknowledgments vii Preface by Saul Bellow ix Introduction by John F. Callahan xvii February 1(4) A Congress Jim Crow Didn't Attend 5(14) Flamenco 19(8) Tell It Like It Is, Baby 27(20) SHADOW AND ACT 47(294) Introduction 49(14) I. THE SEER AND THE SEEN That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure: An Interview 63(18) Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity 81(19) Change and Joke and Slip the Yoke 100(13) Stephen Crane and the Mainstream of American Fiction 113(15) Richard Wright's Blues 128(17) Beating That Boy 145(6) Brave Words for a Startling Occasion 151(4) The World and the Jug 155(34) Hidden Name and Complex Fate 189(21) The Art of Fiction: An Interview 210(17) II. SOUND AND THE MAINSTREAM Living with Music 227(10) The Golden Age, Time Past 237(13) As the Spirit Moves Mahalia 250(6) On Bird, Bird-Watching and Jazz 256(10) The Charlie Christian Story 266(7) Remembering Jimmy 273(5) Blues People 278(13) III. THE SHADOW AND THE ACT Some Questions and Some Answers 291(11) The Shadow and the Act 302(8) The Way It Is 310(10) Harlem Is Nowhere 320(8) An American Dilemma. A Review 328(13) Working Notes for Invisible Man 341(10) A Special Message to Subscribers 351(6) Indivisible Man 357(44) James Armistead Lafayette 401(8) Commencement Address at the College of William and Mary 409(10) Address to the Harvard College Alumni, Class of 1949 419(12) Haverford Statement 431(6) Homage to William L. Dawson 437(6) Alain Locke 443(10) Roscoe Dunjee and the American Language 453(12) Presentation to Bernard Malamud of the Gold Medal for Fiction 465(8) Introduction to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Invisible Man 473(20) GOING TO THE TERRITORY The Little Man at Chehaw Station 493(31) On Initiation Rites and Power: A Lecture at West Point 524(22) What These Children Are Like 546(10) The Myth of the Flawed White Southerner 556(11) If the Twain Shall Meet 567(14) What America Would Be Like Without Blacks 581(8) Portrait of Inman Page: A Dedication Speech 589(6) Going to the Territory 595(22) An Extravagance of Laughter 617(46) Remembering Richard Wright 663(17) Homage to Duke Ellington on His Birthday 680(8) The Art of Romare Bearden 688(10) Society, Morality and the Novel 698(32) A Very Stern Discipline 730(29) The Novel as a Function of American Democracy 759(11) Perspective of Literature 770(17) A Completion of Personality: A Talk with Ralph Ellison 787(36) On Being the Target of Discrimination 823(10) Bearden 833(8) Notes for Class Day Talk at Columbia University 841(6) Foreword to The Beer Can by the Highway 847(6) Address at the Whiting Foundation 853