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A separate piece reviews a new collection of Ellison short stories, praising Ellison's conviction that blacks had "a degree of freedom" despite the confines of American racism, freedom that black "protest" writers (Toni Morrison, Richard Wright) have unfortunately downplayed.
There are several stories about "riding the rods," as illegally riding trains was called (Ellison did this as a college student), as well as tales about growing up in the Midwest, with Ellison making use of his Oklahoma upbringing.
Throughout the story, Ellison uses the symbol of horns, investing them with a number of meanings relating to sexual desire (the horny young boys), artistic creation (the instrument of jazz), and masculinity (the symbol of a bull).
Ellison drew this welcome partly because he was the first black writer to win a National Book Award (in 1953) and the only novelist among his contemporaries to win one of the major literary prizes.
I'd like to have seen some evidence in Africana of our humanity and resourcefulness, the kind of thing you find in the work of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, both of whom were, if memory serves correctly, Henry Louis Gates' mentors.