SOURCE: "Improvising America: Ralph Ellison and the Paradox of Form," in Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison, edited by Kimberly W. Benston, Howard University Press, 1987, pp. 173-83.
In the following essay, Bigsby examines Ellison's paradoxical treatment of chaos and form.
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