Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison

Part One: Materials Primary Sources Biographical Materials Contextual Materials Critical Studies Other Resources Part Two: Approaches Introduction, by Tracy Floreani Invisible Man in the Twenty-First Century Layers of Identity: Learning to Teach Invisible Man, by John F. Callahan Resisting Black-Lack Readings of Invisible Man, by Sherry Johnson Can the Joke "Slip the Yoke"? Invisible Man and the Knot of Black Humor, by Kirin Wachter-Grene "Punking" Invisible Man: Reading Race, Queerness, and Disability, by Alvin J. Henry Invisible Man and the Urban Uprising, by J. J. Butts Claiming the Lens of Love: Reading Invisible Man through 1 Corinthians 13, by Martha Greene Eads Broader Contexts Historicizing Ellison: Politics and Pedagogy, by Barbara Foley The Democratic Ideal of Ellison's Jazz-Shaped America, by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. Listening for the Invisible, by Jake Johnson Short Works The Voices of History: Narrating the Past in Ellison's Short Fiction, by Keith Byerman Teaching Intergenerational Conflict and Technology in "Flying Home" and "Cadillac Flambe", by Paul Devlin Is Resistance Futile? Exploring "King of the Bingo Game" in a Secondary ELA Classroom, by Aimee Myers Navigating Freedom with "Uncertainty and Daring": Reading Ellison and Writing Memoir in a Prison Classroom, by Agnieszka Tuszynska Epistolary Ellison: Letter Writing as Pedagogy, by Clark Barwick Versions of the Second Novel Reflecting on the Mysteries of Ellison's "Unfinished" Project, by Keyana Parks An Episodic Writing-as-Inquiry Approach to Three Days before the Shooting . . ., by Tracy Floreani Notes on Contributors Survey Participants Works Cited