The Role of Violence and the Idea of America in Ralph Ellison's “A Party Down at the Square”.
While Ralph Ellison's unshakable faith in the American democracy and his obvious desire to be counted among the great tradition of American (not necessarily African American) literature, have at times made him appear accommodationist to some, and even "dangerous," to use Amiri Baraka's word, to othe...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 1 - 20 |
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University of Toronto Press
2009
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