edited by Tracy Floreani

From the revered MLA “Approaches to Teaching” series comes a new volume on Ralph Ellison. Essays in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison will help instructors in colleges, high schools, and prisons teach not only the indispensable Invisible Man but also Ellison’s short stories, his essays, and the two editions of his second, unfinished novel, Juneteenth and Three Days before the Shooting . . . .
In considering Ellison’s works in relation to jazz, technology, humor, politics, queerness, and disability, this volume mirrors the breadth of Ellison’s own life, which extended from the Jim Crow era through the Black Power movement.

Contents include

• Recommended resources
• “Teaching Invisible Man in the 21st Century”
• “Developing Broader Contexts for Ellison’s Works”
• “Approaches to Some of Ellison’s Short Works” (including the short stories, essays, and letters)
• “Teaching Versions of the Second/Posthumous Novel: Juneteenth and Three Days Before the Shooting . . .”
  
  CONTRIBUTORS
  Clark Barwick
  Sterling L. Bland
  J.J. Butts
  Keith Byerman
  John F. Callahan
  Paul Devlin
  Martha Greene Eads
  Tracy Floreani
  Barbara Foley
  Jake Johnson
  Sherry Johnson
  Alvin J. Henry
  Aimée Myers
  Keyana Parks
  Agnieska Tusszynska
  Kirin Wachter-Grene

Available to purchase from the Modern Language Association website and other book sellers

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