{"product_id":"ralph-ellison-and-kenneth-burke-bryan-crable-9780813932156","title":"Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRalph Ellison and Kenneth Burke\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the little-known but important friendship between two canonical American writers. The story of this fifty-year friendship, however, is more than literary biography; Bryan Crable argues that the Burke-Ellison relationship can be interpreted as a microcosm of the American \"racial divide.\" Through examination of published writings and unpublished correspondence, he reconstructs the dialogue between Burke and Ellison about race that shaped some of their most important works, including Burke's \u003ci\u003eA Rhetoric of Motives\u003c\/i\u003e and Ellison's \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man. \u003c\/i\u003eIn addition, the book connects this dialogue to changes in American discourse about race. Crable shows that these two men were deeply connected, intellectually and personally, but the social division between white and black Americans produced hesitation, embarrassment, mystery, and estrangement where Ellison and Burke might otherwise have found unity. By using Ellison's nonfiction and Burke's rhetorical theory to articulate a new vocabulary of race, the author concludes not with a simplistic \"healing\" of the divide but with a challenge to embrace the responsibility inherent to our social order.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Literatures Initiative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bryan Crable\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813932157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813932156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2012","brand":"Bryan Crable","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013801357567,"sku":"9780813932156","price":63.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_29b6e820-b9dc-4a80-864e-fd264e809fc7.jpg?v=1767744856","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ralph-ellison-and-kenneth-burke-bryan-crable-9780813932156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}