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title	:	Prophets of Recognition : Ideology and the Individual in Novels By Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty Southern Literary Studies
author	:	Eichelberger, Julia.
publisher	:	Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0807123587
print isbn13	:	9780807123584
ebook isbn13	:	9780585292328
language	:	English
subject	American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Social psychology and literature--United States--History--20th century, Social psychology in literature, Welty, Eudora,--1909---Optimist's daughter, Ellison, Ralph.--Invisible man, Bellow, Saul.--Siez
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	PS374.S714E35 1999eb
ddc	:	813/.5409353
subject	:	American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Social psychology and literature--United States--History--20th century, Social psychology in literature, Welty, Eudora,--1909---Optimist's daughter, Ellison, Ralph.--Invisible man, Bellow, Saul.--Siez

Page v Prophets of Recognition Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty Southern Literary Studies Fred Hobson, Editor Julia Eichelberger

Page vi Copyright 1999 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 54321 Designer: Amanda McDonald Scallan Typeface: Janson Text Typesetter: Crane Composition Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Eichelberger, Julia, 1959 Prophets of recognition: ideology and the individual in novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty / Julia Eichelberger. p. cm. (Southern literary studies) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8071-2358-7 (cl : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8071-2528-8 (p: alk. paper) 1. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Social psychology and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th century. 3. Social psychology in literature. 4. Welty, Eudora, 1909 Optimist's daughter. 5. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man. 6. Bellow, Saul. Seize the day. 7. Morrison, Toni. Bluest eye. I. Title. II. Series. PS374.S714E35 1999 99-20908 813' .5409353dc21 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.&!; Chapter 4 of this book appeared in different form in Studies in American Jewish Literature 17 (1998), Daniel Walden, editor.

Page vii For Roy, Ben, and Sara

Page ix Contents Acknowledgments xi chapter 1 America and Its Discontents 1 chapter 2 Up from Ideology: The "Infinite Possibilities" of Invisible Man 25 chapter 3 "Somebody with Hands Who Does Not Want Me to Die": Ideology and Recognition in The Bluest Eye 58 chapter 4 Renouncing "The World's Business" in Seize the Day 95 chapter 5 From Stasis to Praxis in The Optimist's Daughter 127 Conclusion: Prophets of Recognition 167 Bibliography 179 Index 189

Page xi Acknowledgments I received help from many people as I wrote this book. I wish to thank my teachers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose insights and scholarly examples illuminated the literature we studied together. Professors Thadious Davis, Lee Greene, William Harmon, Jeanne Moskal, Mark Reed, Louis Rubin, and Weldon Thornton all provided occasions for me to explore topics that found a place in this study. I am especially grateful to Trudier Harris for her confidence that my interest in these seemingly disparate writers would prove worthwhile, and for her advice and encouragement as I developed the book. I also received much encouragement from my graduate student colleagues at the University of North Carolina: Jane Duke Elkins, Mitch Harris, Barbara Ladd, Candis LaPrade, and Ann Folwell Stanford, who seemed interested when I talked about my work and who helped me unravel several conceptual knots in early drafts. At the College of Charleston, I received summer grants from the Faculty Research and Development Committee that helped me begin my work on the book, and colleagues Nan Morrison, Beth Harrison, Joe Kelly, and Susan Farrell all helped me by providing useful comments on chapters. I also wish to thank colleagues here who have helped me complete the book by listening to my grousing about it, especially Jill Beifuss, Rich Bodek, Terry Bowers, Susan Farrell, Tom Heeney, Will Heim, Joe Kelly, Simon Lewis, Scott Peoples, Carolyn Russell, and Trish Ward. These fine scholars have inquired after the health of the manuscript, found lost car keys, baby-sat children, and repeatedly extended words of encouragement, boxes of tissue, and bottles of cham-

Page xii pagne as the need arose. My parents, whose spiritual and humanistic worldview underpins this book's argument, have been unstinting in their support, as have my siblings. Finally, I thank my husband, Roy Hutchinson, for his love, patience, and dry wit, and our children, Ben and Sara, for confirming my faith in the individual by being irrepressibly and adorably themselves.

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