entitled ``The Shadow and the Act'', which expanded upon his critique in ``Twentieth Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity'' of the vicious and detrimental stereotypes rampant in mainstream American culture. Reviewing the book in 1965, R. W. B. Lewis said: ``Shadow and Act contains Ralph Ellison's real autobiography.... The experiences of writing Invisible Man and of vaulting on his first try ``over the parochial limits of most Negro fiction'' (as Richard G. Stern says in an interview), and, as a result, of being written about as a literary and sociological phenomenon, combined with sheer compositional difficulties, seem to have driven Ellison to search out the truths of his own past.
entitled ``The Shadow and the Act'', which expanded upon his critique in ``Twentieth Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity'' of the vicious and detrimental stereotypes rampant in mainstream American culture.
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cc
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Reviewing the book in 1965, R. W. B. Lewis said: ``Shadow and Act contains Ralph Ellison's real autobiography....
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contain
contains
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autobiography
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The experiences of writing Invisible Man and of vaulting on his first try ``over the parochial limits of most Negro fiction'' (as Richard G. Stern says in an interview), and, as a result, of being written about as a literary and sociological phenomenon, combined with sheer compositional difficulties, seem to have driven Ellison to search out the truths of his own past.
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experience
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write
writing
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obj
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Man
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try
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limit
limits
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negro
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fiction
fiction
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combined
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compositional
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difficulties
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own
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past
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