AHC and WI: Ralph Ellison's Second Novel

Has anyone here read either of the published manuscripts of Ralph Ellison's second attempted novel? When and how could he have finished and published it? What might have been its legacy? Depending on when it gets published, would Ellison do a third novel?
 

Japhy

Banned
I don't normally read unfinished manuscripts but I'm not sure how vastly changed Ellison's legacy would be had he finished the projects.
 
According to Wikipedia, the plot of the would-be second novel -- titled posthumously as Juneteenth and Three Days Before the Shooting -- "revolves around a man named Bliss of indeterminate race who is raised by a black Baptist minister named Alonzo Hickman. As an adult he assumes a white identity and eventually becomes a race-baiting United States Senator named Adam Sunraider".
 

Japhy

Banned
I just don't see how anyone can assume that this would be bigger then The Invisible Man, so again, I can't be sure it would have any impact on his legacy.
 
Ellison is regarded as a great writer and Invisible Man as forever part of the American literary cannon. This sounds awkward but if he got it together somehow and published Juneteenth in 1968 or 1969, he'd probably be seen as, uh, a really super-great writer?

Just by its subject alone, it would be a case of a novel coming out at a perfect time in the Zeitgist. I'm sure - given his talent - he could have come up with something that was readible at the very least.
 
... if he got it together somehow and published Juneteenth in 1968 or 1969...

Just by its subject alone, it would be a case of a novel coming out at a perfect time in the Zeitgist..

I'm wondering if it might come out even earlier. At least one source says that "most" of the manuscript was written in the 50's -- if this is so, then an early 1960's publication, when legislation like the Civil Rights Act is being discussed (or about to be discussed), would seem plausible.
 
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