Ellison's essays / R.W.B. Lewis --
Nightmare of a native son / Jonathan Baumbach --
American nightmare / Allen Guttmann --
The music of invisibility / Tony Tanner --
Literacy and hibernation : Ralph Ellison's Invisible man / Robert B. Stepto --
Ritual and rationalization : Black folklore in the works of Ralph Ellison / Susan L. Blake --
The mixed heritage of the modern Black novel / Charles T. Davis --
Creativity and commerce in the trueblood episode / Houston A. Baker, Jr. --
Solitude / Michael G. Cooke --
Call me Jonah / Douglas Robinson --
Anthropology, modernism, and jazz / Berndt Ostendorf.
The work in the writer / Harold Bloom
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Biography of Ralph Ellison / Norma Jean Lutz
Race, writing, and morality : cultural conversations in the works of Ralph Ellison / Thomas Heise
The testament of Ralph Ellison / John M. Reilly
Improvising America : Ralph Ellison and the paradox of form / C.W.E. Bigsby
Black boys and Native sons / Irving Howe.
From the Book - New edition.
Tod Clifton : spiritual and carnal / Alan Nadel --
Race man, organization man, invisible man / Andrew Hoberek --
Ralph Eliison, race, and American culture / Morris Dickstein --
Saying yes and saying no : individualist ethics in Ellison, Burke, and Emerson / James M. Albrecht --
Listening to the blues : Ralph Ellison's trueblood episode in Invisible man / Bertram D. Ashe --
The invisible man in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man / H. William Rice --
Eloquence and Invisible man / Christoper Hanlon --
Keep on moving don't stop : Invisible man / Valerie Sweeney Prince --
Secular riffs on the sacred : Ralph Ellison's mock-Messianic discourse in Invisible man / Tuire Valkeakari --
The unity of experience / Robert Penn Warren --
Ralph Ellison's flying home / Joseph F. Trimmer --
America, race, and Ralph Ellison / Sanford Pinsker.