Introduction : Ellison's joking / Ross Posnock
Ralph Ellison's invented life : a meeting with the ancestors / Lawrence Jackson
Ellison and the black Church : the gospel according to Ralph / Laura Saunders
Ellison, photography, and the origins of invisibility / Sara Blair
Ralph Ellison's music lessons / Paul Allen Anderson
Ralph Ellison's constitutional faith / Gregg Crane
Ralph Ellison and the politics of melancholia / Anne Anlin Cheng
Invisible Ellison : the fight to be a Negro leader / Tim Parrish
Ellison's experimental attitude and the technologies of illumination / John S. Wright
Female iconography in Invisible man / Shelly Eversley
Chaos not quite controlled : Ellison's uncompleted transit to Juneteenth / Kenneth W. Warren
Ralph Ellison, Hannah Arendt, and the meaning of politics / Ross Posnock
Dry bones / Eric J. Sundquist.
