Wrestling with Ellison
Against The Current vol. 155
Heideman, Paul M.
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3444
Date Written: 2011-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX14106
Nathaniel Mill's review of Barbara Foley’s Wrestling With the Left (ATC 152, May-June 2011) raises a number of very important issues for understanding the politics of Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece, and by extension 20th-century African-American literature as a whole. In particular, Mills’ criticisms of Foley’s neglect of potentially liberatory moments in the text foregrounds the crucial issue of how revolutionary critics should go about the task of investigating novelistic politics.
