{"id":5567,"date":"2010-03-01T23:07:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2010-03-01T23:07:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:07:37","slug":"cu-professor-helps-author-come-alive-new-ralph-ellison-book-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5567","title":{"rendered":"CU professor helps author come alive: New [Ralph] Ellison book on sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cuindependent.com\/2010\/02\/07\/cu-professor-helps-author-come-alive\/\" target=\"_blank\">CU professor helps author come alive: New [Ralph] Ellison book on sale<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cuindependent.com\" target=\"_self\">CU Independent<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Colorado<br \/>\n2010-02-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaely Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/English\/faculty\/facpages\/bradley.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Bradley<\/a>, a CU associate professor of English, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lclark.edu\/college\/faculty\/members\/john_callahan\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Callahan<\/a>, a professor of humanities at Lewis and Clark College, have come together after author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Ellison\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Ellison<\/a>\u2019s death to produce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780375759536\" target=\"_blank\">unpublished work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison\u2019s novel \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invisible_Man\" target=\"_blank\">Invisible Man<\/a>\u201d became a literary success after its release in 1952. From the time of its publication, to Ellison\u2019s death in 1994, the author worked on putting out a second novel that he never finished&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Bradley, who has a black father and a white mother, said that he didn\u2019t have much of a connection with the black side of his family while growing up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen I read this book in college, it had a clarifying influence on me,\u201d Bradley said. \u201cI saw parts of myself in it in the search for identity, in the search for a father figure and all these sorts of things that are really quite personal, played out in a public work of fiction. It inspired me to understand what exactly my multiracial identity means.\u201d&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Bradley said the book centers around the relationship between two characters. One is a black jazzman turned preacher and the other is a child of indeterminate race whom the preacher raises as his own. The two travel around the country as a part of a revival sermon until the child strikes out on his own and disappears for years, emerging decades later as a white, racist senator.<\/p>\n<p>The central plot of the book is about an attempt upon the senator\u2019s life by the hands of his own estranged son, Bradley said, as the preacher races to Washington to try to save the man he knew years before&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/cuindependent.com\/2010\/02\/07\/cu-professor-helps-author-come-alive\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CU professor helps author come alive: New [Ralph] Ellison book on sale CU Independent University of Colorado 2010-02-07 Kaely Moore Adam Bradley, a CU associate professor of English, and John Callahan, a professor of humanities at Lewis and Clark College, have come together after author Ralph Ellison\u2019s death to produce unpublished work. 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