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“Fighting Words”: Ralph Ellison and Len Zinberg

“…80 I've suggested that Walk Tall might also be thought of as a Bildungsroman since it presents the parallel tracks of Andy's failed "trade" apprenticeship-he ends up "a black boy out of a job"-and his burgeoning political education. 81 The novel celebrates that education, which it presents in the form of two deeply "serious" young people engaged in an ongoing dialectic: love means "sparring like a couple of pugs. "…”