Athletics, Accommodation, and the Labor Question in Ralph Ellison's "Afternoon".
In his 1940 short story "Afternoon" as well as reviews published in the early 1940s, Ralph Ellison contributed to conversations about Black labor in the Jim Crow era via a focus on the burgeoning field of professional sports. In their roleplaying as professional athletes, Ellison's young protagonist...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 1 - 20 |
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