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BOX I:95-169 |
Part I: Writings File, 1935-1995
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Drafts of essays, novels, reviews, short stories, and other material written by
Ellison. Correspondence and material relating to the production, publicity, and
reception of his works are included. Dates in parentheses in the container list
refer to the publication date; other dates refer to the period covered by the
material in the folder. |
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Arranged alphabetically by type of work and by title therein. |
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BOX I:95 |
Essays and essay collections |
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“Adventures of an Unintentional New Yorker,”
undated
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“The American Artist and His Audience”
(1977), 1994
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American Civilization: a Portrait from the Twentieth Century (1972), unpublished chapter, 1968-1970
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American Negro Congress, circa
1940
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“The Art of Fiction: An Interview,”
1970
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“As the Spirit Moves Mahalia,” 1958,
1969
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Author's statement, Attacks of Taste, 1971
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“Camp Lost Colony,”
1940
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“Change the Joke and Slip the
Yoke” |
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Correspondence, drafts, and partial
drafts, 1957
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Draft fragments,
undated
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Notes, undated
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“The Charlie Christian Story,”
1958
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“Charlie Houston,”
undated
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“A Congress Jim Crow Didn't Attend,”
1940
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“The Constitution as Ground or Scene for the
Enactment of the Drama of American Democracy,”
undated
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Down Home, with Bob Adelman, 1969-1972
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Editorial comments |
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General, circa 1937,
1970
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BOX I:96 |
Negro Quarterly,
1942-1944
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(2 folders) |
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“February” (1955), circa 1937-1938,
1955
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“Flamenco,” 1954
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Going to the Territory (1986) |
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“An Extravagance
of Laughter”
See also Container 99, “Going to the
Territory,” and
Container 103, “New York, 1936"
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First draft, circa
1985
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Edited draft,
1985
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Partial drafts, circa
1985
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BOX I:97 |
Work folder, circa 1985
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(2 folders) |
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Contract, 1984
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Correspondence,
1984-1987
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Printer's setting copy, 1986
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(3 folders) |
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BOX I:98 |
Galleys |
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Author's edited version,
1986
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(2 folders) |
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Master set |
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First pass, 1986
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(3 folders) |
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BOX I:99 |
Second pass, 1986
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(3 folders) |
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Inscriptions and mailing lists,
1986-1987
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Miscellany,
1985-1987
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Reviews,
1986-1987
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“Going to the Territory,”
Carleton Miscellany: A Review of Literature and the Liberal Arts, 1980
See also Containers 96-97, Going to the
Territory, “An Extravagance of Laughter”
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“The Golden Age, Time Past” (1956),
1958-1961, 1972, 1983
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BOX I:100 |
“Harlem Is Nowhere” (1964), 1947-1948
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(3 folders) |
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“Harlem Twenty-Four Hours After–Peace and
Quiet Reign,” 1943
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Hemingway, Ernest, unfinished essay,
circa 1940
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The hero in literature,
undated
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“Hidden Name and Complex
Fate: A Writer's Experience in the U.S.,” 1964
See also Container 87, Library of
Congress
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“Homage to Duke Ellington on His Birthday”
(1969), 1969-1970
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“Imprisoned in Words,”
1946-1947
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BOX I:101 |
“Indivisible Man” (1970),
1970-1973
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“James Armistead Lafayette” (1974),
1974-1976
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“Let Us Consider the Harlem Crime Wave,”
circa 1943
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“The Little Man at Chehaw Station”
(1977) |
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Drafts and partial drafts,
undated
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(2 folders) |
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Miscellany,
1976-1978
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“Living with Music,”
1955
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“Minority Provincialism as a Problem in
Creative Writing,” undated
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BOX I:102 |
Miscellaneous notes, 1943,
1953-1991
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(6 folders) |
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BOX I:103 |
“The Myth of the Flawed White Southerner”
(1968), 1967-1969
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New American left wing writers, circa
1935
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“New York, 1936,”
1936
See also Containers 96-97, Going to the
Territory, “An Extravagance of Laughter”
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“Notes on the American Language and
Literature” |
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Drafts and draft fragments,
1970
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(4 folders) |
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BOX I:104 |
Notes and research material,
1970
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“The Novel as a Function of American
Democracy” (1967), 1967
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“On Becoming a Writer” (1965),
1964-1965
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On Being Black: Writings by Afro-Americans from Frederick Douglass to the Present, 1970
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“On Being the Target of Discrimination,”
1989
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“On Birdwatching and Jazz” (1962),
1962
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“Perspective of Literature” (1976),
1976-1977
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“Philippine Writers Report,”
1941
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“Ralph Ellison: Notre Lutte Nous Proclamé à
la Fois ’Nègres et Americains,'” Preuves (1958), 1957, 1969
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“Recent Negro Fiction” (1941),
1941
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(2 folders) |
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“Rejoiner” (1964)
See also Container 108, “The World and the
Jug”
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Drafts and draft fragments,
undated
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Miscellany,
1964-1969
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Notes, undated
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“Remembering Jimmy,”
1958
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BOX I:105 |
“Remembering Richard Wright”
(1984), 1983-1984
See also Container 174, Lectures, 1971, 18
July
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“Richard Wright and Negro Fiction,”
1941
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“Richard Wright's Blues” (1945),
1945
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Drafts and partial drafts |
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Draft fragments and notes |
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“Romare Bearden: Paintings and Projections”
(1970), 1969-1970, 1985
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“The Shadow and the Act” (1949),
1949-1950
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Shadow and Act (1964) |
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Contracts,
1964-1968
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Correspondence,
1964-1978
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Drafts |
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“Introduction,” undated |
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“ An American Dilemma: A Review,” 1944
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BOX I:106 |
“Twentieth Century Fiction and the
Black Mask of Humanity,” circa 1946, 1953
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Miscellaneous text,
1964-1966
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Miscellany, 1964-1967,
1995
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Reviews,
1964-1967
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Royalty statements,
1966-1974
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“Society, Morality, and the Novel,” The Living Novel (1957), 1956-1963
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(3 folders) |
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“Speaking for You: Ralph Ellison's Cultural
Vision” (1987), 1981-1988
See also Container 171, Speeches, 1975, 21
June
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“The Swing to Stereo,”
1958
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BOX I:107 |
“Tape, Disks, and Coexistence,” ghostwritten
by Ellison, 1955
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“Tell It Like It Is, Baby” (1965) |
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Drafts, 1965-1969, 1990
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(4 folders) |
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Galleys, notes, and general material,
1965-1969, 1990
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“Three Southern Novels,”
1944
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“Twentieth Century
Writing and the Black Mask of Humanity” (1953), 1946, 1953
See also Container 172, Lectures, 1953, 3-5
Aug.
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BOX I:108 |
Unidentified fragments, undated
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(2 folders) |
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“The Uses of History in
Fiction,” with William Styron, Robert Penn Warren, and C. Vann Woodward,
1969
See also Container 170, Speeches, 1968, 6
Nov.
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“The Way It Is,”
1942
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