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Sy, Ousseynou. "When ralph ellison unmutes the silences of history in invisible man." International journal of linguistics, literature and culture 6, no. 2 (February 6, 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v6n2.851.

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This paper deals with Ellison’s ahistoriographic or counterhistory/ countermemory discourse that narrates the marginality of the African-American community. To craft his ahistoriographic discourse, Ellison uses sequels of the past, and tropes of carcerality and segregation to bring to the fore the process and politics of otherization that have set the African-American community away from linear time and progress. Ellison’s counterhistory or countermemory discourse “revises received American history by inscribing the history of Blacks in America” (252), as Greene argues. Therefore, Ellison’s ahistoriographic discourse is also a discourse of marginality that digs up the archives to rewrite the other side of suppressed and erased American history that America insulates itself within an amnesia that does not acknowledge that kind of history. As the narrator says, “only those events the recorder regards as important” (439) are archived. Ellison plays with history; he narrativizes the received American history (the official historiography), meaning that he assimilates it with mere lies or fiction.

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Abang, Emenyi, and Kalu, Kalu Obasi. "Vision Versus Illusion: A Symbol of Reality in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man." English Linguistics Research 6, no. 3 (September 4, 2017): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v6n3p15.

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Vision Versus Illusion: A Symbol of Reality in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man attempts to x-ray Ralph Ellison’s portrayal of the struggles and experiences of the Negro in the American society. The work examines his plot, characterization and his artistry which are all geared towards the success of the novel. The paper examines the role of these literary elements employed by Ellison to dissect the American society showing the conditions and plights of the Negro living among the whites in America. America is in the midst of chaos. Her oppression and antagonism of the Negro has resulted in a blindness that is contagious, and everybody is affected. This work attempts to unravel the state of incompatibility hinged on racism and exploitation as practiced in America against the Negroes. This has been the hallmark of literary expression of the 1960s and beyond among nations that have experienced exploitation and oppression. The nations notably include: South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, and other West African countries. These conditions have engendered literary reactions among scholars across the Globe.

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Sharapova, Gulshan Sharafovna, and Shaxlo Shaydulloyevna Kahharova. "The Negro Problem Of Identity And Existence In The Novel “Invisible Man” By Ralph Ellison." American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations 03, no. 02 (February 28, 2021): 451–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajssei/volume03issue02-71.

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This article attempts to study the Negro problem of identity and existence in the postwar American novel. The core of this study tackles the desperate quest, this man is living in a blind and racist American world, which denies his existence, and reduces him almost to a non-entity making him ever more restless, possessed and exhausted.

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Taylor, Jack. "Ralph Ellison as a Reader of Hegel: Ellison’s Invisible Man as Literary Phenomenology." Intertexts 19, no. 1-2 (2015): 135–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/itx.2015.0008.

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Wasserman, Sarah. "Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, and the Persistence of Urban Forms." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 135, no. 3 (May 2020): 530–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.3.530.

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This essay investigates the treatment of what I call infrastructural racism in fiction by Ralph Ellison and Chester Himes. Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) and Himes's Harlem Cycle novels (1957–69) chronicle vanishing urban objects and changing infrastructure to show that even as Harlem modernizes, the racist structures that undergird society do not. Ellison and Himes use ephemeral objects like signs, newspapers, and blueprints to encapsulate Harlem's transience and to suggest to readers that the neighborhood itself is a dynamic archive, continually changing yet resistant to overarching narratives of cultural loss or social progress. Himes and Ellison write about permanence and loss in mid-century Harlem in terms that disrupt the social realism associated with the novel of detection and the psychological realism associated with the novel of consciousness. Such a reading prompts a reconsideration of the critical categories–genre fiction and literary fiction–that have, until now, kept these two writers apart.

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Parrish, Timothy L. "Ralph Ellison: The Invisible Man in Philip Roth's "The Human Stain"." Contemporary Literature 45, no. 3 (2004): 421. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3593533.

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Parrish, Timothy. "Ralph Ellison: The Invisible Man in Philip Roth's The Human Stain." Contemporary Literature 45, no. 3 (2004): 421–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cli.2004.0026.

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Diller, C. G. "Signifying on Stowe: Ralph Ellison and the Sentimental Rhetoric of Invisible Man." Modern Language Quarterly 75, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 487–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2796875.

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Meyer, Adam. "“A Basic Unity of Experience”: The Jewishness of Ralph Ellison and the Invisible Man." Prospects 25 (October 2000): 663–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000806.

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Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man has elicited more than its share of critical attention ever since its first appearance in 1952. It continues to fascinate critics because, like one of its forebears, James Joyce's Ulysses, Ellison's novel contains enough material to occupy them for a very long time, no matter what their reading orientation might be. According to Crushing Strout, “Invisible Man has generated metaphysical, psychological, existential, symbolist, and folkloristic readings – all of which have their basis not only in critical fashion but in the fecundity of the novel's linguistic energy” (80). What's more, Strout's list of possible interpretive orientations doesn't begin to exhaust the fecundity of approaches one can take to the text. Ellison's novel continues to call for new ways of being read, new contexts in which to be placed so as to be better understood and appreciated.

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Goldstein-Shirley, David, and Eric J. Sundquist. "Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." MELUS 24, no. 1 (1999): 246. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/467918.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ellison, Ralph – Invisible man"

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Sharp, Matthew T. "A heap of signifying narrative, materiality, and reification in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man /." Connect to the thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/632.

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Butcher, Kenton Bryan. "Ralph Ellison's Mythical Method in Invisible Man." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461407953.

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Neves, Maria Natália Amaro Almeida Castro. "A busca da eloquência em Invisible Man de Ralph Ellison." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2009. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000196734.

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Neves, Maria Natália Amaro Almeida Castro. "A busca da eloquência em Invisible Man de Ralph Ellison." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/20410.

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Hera, Culda Lucia. "Invisible Power : Electricity and Social Visibility in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-32220.

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This essay will investigate the role of electricity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, in connection to the concept of Otherness, as a result of race differences. It will argue that electricity in the novel is used as a metaphor in discourses of power by the oppressive white society, as well as a means of resistance for the protagonist/narrator, who is socially invisible because of his race. This will be done by performing a close reading of the novel focusing on the way Ellison uses the metaphor of electricity to deconstruct the hierarchy between black and white on several levels. Three main episodes will be analysed, in order to prove these claims: the Battle Royal, the Liberty Paints Factory Hospital and the Brotherhood Speech. The essay will also draw a parallel between Invisible Man and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in order to further clarify the issue of Otherness in connection to electricity, and the aesthetic value of electricity in literature.

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Monteverde, Maria Isabel. "As dimensões do tempo em Invisible Man : Ralph Ellison e a geometria da invisibilidade." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2008. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000222397.

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Esta dissertação realça as tensões temporais do romance na condição existencial de um jovem negro americano, após a segunda guerra mundial, destinado vocacionalmente à expressão verbal. Invisible Man, personagem criada pelo escritor Ralph Ellison, idealiza na metáfora do buraco um espaço conceptual do processo criativo, na circularidade do sonho e na esteira do conhecimento. A importância do transcendentalismo emersoniano na tradição literária americana e a adesão ao existencialismo sartriano, problematizam a temática da identidade. As relações metafísicas entre tempo e luz reflectem a agonia do viajante invisível, em demanda de um centro, descentrado em Harlem, onde vive no estigma da cor o esmagamento do ser. Numa cultura que dotou o afro-americano de uma dupla consciência do mundo, o herói idealiza, em Nova Iorque, um cubo, lugar de iluminação interior e de reversibilidade que demonstra ser tão mítico, ou tão ilusório quanto o da Renaissance.

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Monteverde, Maria Isabel. "As dimensões do tempo em Invisible Man : Ralph Ellison e a geometria da invisibilidade." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/67109.

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Esta dissertação realça as tensões temporais do romance na condição existencial de um jovem negro americano, após a segunda guerra mundial, destinado vocacionalmente à expressão verbal. Invisible Man, personagem criada pelo escritor Ralph Ellison, idealiza na metáfora do buraco um espaço conceptual do processo criativo, na circularidade do sonho e na esteira do conhecimento. A importância do transcendentalismo emersoniano na tradição literária americana e a adesão ao existencialismo sartriano, problematizam a temática da identidade. As relações metafísicas entre tempo e luz reflectem a agonia do viajante invisível, em demanda de um centro, descentrado em Harlem, onde vive no estigma da cor o esmagamento do ser. Numa cultura que dotou o afro-americano de uma dupla consciência do mundo, o herói idealiza, em Nova Iorque, um cubo, lugar de iluminação interior e de reversibilidade que demonstra ser tão mítico, ou tão ilusório quanto o da Renaissance.

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Mohamed, Ifrah. "Ralph Ellison's Invisible Women: A Comparison of Invisibility Between the Invisible Man and Selected Female Characters in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952)." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-33707.

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LoVerde, Andrew Jack. "A literature of change: Slave narrative rhetoric in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1234.

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Turner, Tracy Peterson. "Themes of Exodus and Revolution in Ellison's Invisible Man, Morrison's Beloved, and Doctorow's Ragtime." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2689/.

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In my dissertation I examine the steps in and performance of revolution through the writings of three Postmodern authors, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and E. L. Doctorow, in light of the model of the biblical Exodus journey and the revolution which precipitated that movement. I suggest that the revolution which began with the Israelites' bondage in Egypt has provided the foundation for American literature. I show that Invisible Man, Beloved, and Ragtime not only employ the motif of the Exodus journey; they also perpetuate the silent revolution begun by the Israelites while held captive in Egypt. This dissertation consists of six chapters. Chapter One provides the introduction to the project. Chapter Two provides the model for this study by defining the characteristics of the Exodus journey, Moses as the leader of the Israelites, and the pattern of revolution established by Michael Walzer in Exodus and Revolution. In Chapters Three, Four, and Five, I apply the model established in Chapter Two to the individual texts. In Chapter Six, I draw three conclusions which arise from my study. My first conclusion is that the master story of the Exodus journey and the Israelites' liberation from Egypt informs all Western literaturewhether the literature reinforces the centrality of the master story to our lives or whether the literature refutes the significance of the master story. Second, the stages of revolution present in the biblical Exodus are also present in twentieth-century American literature. My third conclusion is that authors whose works deal with an exploration of the past in order to effect healing are authors who are revolutionary because their goal is to encourage revolution by motivating readers to refuse to accept the status quo and to, instead, join the revolution which demands change. They do this by asking questions which are characteristic of that which is postmodernnot so much looking for answers as demonstrating that questioning what is, is appropriate and necessary.

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Books on the topic "Ellison, Ralph – Invisible man"

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Ralph Ellison: Invisible man. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2009.

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Invisible man, Ralph Elison. New York, NY: Spark Pub., 2002.

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Ralph Ellison's Invisible man. Woodbury, N.Y: Barron's, 1985.

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Nadel, Alan. Invisible criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American canon. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988.

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Ralph Waldo Ellison's Invisible man. Piscataway, N.J: Research & Education Association, 1996.

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Wrestling with the left: The making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man. Durham [NC]: Duke University Press, 2010.

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Race in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012.

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Ralph, Ellison. Ralph Ellison's Invisible man: A casebook. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Savery, Pancho, and Susan Resneck Pierce. Approaches to teaching Ellison's Invisible man. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1989.

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Ralph Ellison in progress: From Invisible man to Three days before the shooting--. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

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Stein, Daniel. "Ellison, Ralph Waldo: Invisible Man." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–3. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_5241-1.

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Mercer, Erin. "Haunting and Race: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man." In Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature, 61–87. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230119093_3.

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Hakutani, Yoshinobu. "The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man." In Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance, 228–44. New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429283710-13.

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Hakutani, Yoshinobu. "The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man." In Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature, 111–28. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230119123_6.

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Duvall, John N. "Invisible Name and Complex Authority in The Bluest Eye: Morrison’s Covert Letter to Ralph Ellison." In The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison, 25–45. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780312299439_2.

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Eversley, Shelly. "Female iconography in Invisible Man." In The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison, 172–87. Cambridge University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521827817.010.

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Motyl, Katharina. "18. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)." In Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, edited by Timo Müller. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110422429-020.

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Butler, Robert. "Invisible Man and the Politics of Love." In The New Territory. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496806796.003.0002.

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Robert Butler’s “Invisible Man and the Politics of Love” rebuts the critique of Ellison as insufficiently engaged politically and alienated from authentic black culture, voiced most recently in Arnold Rampersad’s biography and Barbara Foley’s Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Butler argues that this view of Ellison misreads the extent of Ellison’s authentic political commitment, which is far more rigorous and complex than Foley’s reductive treatment of his so-called flight from leftist extremism into “mythic individualism.” Butler explores what he calls Ellison’s commitment to Christian love and integration, bringing into relief a political vision that is far more harmonious with the Civil Rights activism of Martin Luther King than the outmoded Marxism that Ellison abandoned in the early 1940s. In Butler’s view, Ellison’s political concept of integration and mutual love is strongly attuned to the needs of America in the 21st century.

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Ostendorf, Berndt. "Ralph Waldo Ellison: Anthropology, Modernism, and Jazz." In New Essays on Invisible Man, 95–122. Cambridge University Press, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511620478.005.

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Sundquist, Eric J. "Ralph Ellison in His Labyrinth." In The New Territory. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496806796.003.0006.

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Eric Sundquist’s “Ellison in His Labyrinth” focuses on the elusive figure of Bliss and his descent from Bliss Proteus Rinehart in Invisible Man through his many incarnations in Three Days. He views Bliss as a version of R.W.B. Lewis’s American Adam. Yet, unlike the Proteus of Homer’s Odyssey, who served as Ellison’s prototype of the American novelist, Bliss cannot be grappled into submission. Surveying the signifying characters and verbal artists in Three Days, Sundquist argues for the Janus nature of Bliss/Sunraider—making him representative of the nation itself and placing the figure in the genealogy of signifying tricksters at the crossroads of time, from Oedipus to Louis Armstrong and ultimately Ellison himself. Reading the second novel through the lenses of Ellison’s essays, Sundquist examines Ellison’s use of the Icarus myth in Three Days, concluding that the trickster figures are all avatars of Sunraider himself, constituting a mystery of identity and history.

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