Juneteenth
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House Trade
- Publish date: 01/01/2008
Juneteenth draws on the flail richness of America's black cultural heritage, from the dazzling range of vernacular sources in the novel's language to the way its structure echoes the call-and-response pattern of the black church and the riffs and bass lines of jazz. It offers jubilant proof that whatever else it means to be a true American it means to be "somehow black" as Ellison once wrote. For even as SenatorSunraider was batched from birth in the deep and nourishing waters of African-American folkways, so too are all Americans.
That idea is the cause for which Ralph Ellison gave the last full measure of his devotion. At the time of his death, he was still expanding his novel in other directions, envisioning a grand, perhaps multivolume, story cycle. Always, in Ellison's mind, the character Hickman and the story of Sunraider's life from birth to death were the dramatic heart of the narrative. And so, with the aid of Ellison's widow, Fanny, his literary executor, John Callahan, has edited this magnificent novel at the center of Ralph Ellison's forty-year work-in-progress -- Juneteenth, its author's abiding testament to the country he so loved and to its many unfinished tasks.
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