Michael Germana

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist elucidates the theory of temporality that binds Ellison's oeuvre together, and explains why race is a matter of time. Germana offers a wholesale reinterpretation of Ellison's corpus as well as an extension of Ellison's ideas about the dynamism of becoming and the open-endedness of the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780190682088
• ISBN-10: 0190682086
• Artikelnr.: 49140526

Autorenporträt

Michael Germana is Associate Professor at West Virginia University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Section I: Overture
* Chapter 1. Time, History, and Becoming in Invisible Man
* Section II: Vision
* Chapter 2. Peristrephic Visions: Henry Box Brown, Ralph Ellison, and
the Panoramic Logic of Invisible Man
* Chapter 3. Rhopographic Photography and Atemporal Cinema: The Link
Between Ralph Ellison's Polaroids and Three Days Before the
Shooting...
* Section III: Sound
* Chapter 4. "Modulate, Daddy, Modulate!": Polyrhythms and Metric
Modulation in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison
* Chapter 5. A Deep Pocket for the Truth of the Times: Ellison's Other
Groove of History
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index