Juneteenth is a tour de force of untutored eloquence. vastly ambitious informing allegory, an allegory made rich, as in Invisible Man, with the sensory details of which Ellison was such a master." - The New York Review of Books And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become the man who would deny everything to achieve his goals? His history encompasses camp meetings where he became the risen Lazarus to inspire the faithful the more ordinary joys of Southern boyhood bucolic days as a filmmaker lovemaking with a young woman in a field in the Oklahoma sun. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. Hickman, the itinerant Negro preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. “Tell me what happened while there’s still time,” demands the dying senator Adam Sunraider to the Reverend A. Here is Ellison, the master of American vernacular-the preacher’s hyperbole and the politician’s rhetoric, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech-at the height of his powers, telling a powerful, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century.
“Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., TIMEįrom the renowned author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth is brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise. With a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author and scholar Charles R.
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