SOURCE: Schor, Edith. “Short Stories: Early Explorations.” In Visible Ellison: A Study of Ralph Ellison's Fiction, pp. 15-36. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993.
In the following essay, Schor underscores the importance of Ellison's early stories as “the arena for his discovery of the appropriate forms to express the African-American experience and for working out the meaning of the experience for himself.”
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