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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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Wilcox, Eliot J. "The Absurd in the Briar Patch: Ellison's Invisible Man and Existentialism." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2305.

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This article claims that Ralph Ellison's use and then revision of French existential themes is essential to understanding his overriding message of Invisible Man: Ellison's hope for a more polyglot American democracy that transcends the white democracy of mid twentieth century America. Specifically, I argue that Ellison, after demonstrating his ability to understand and engage in the traditional ideology of European existentialism, deviates from its individualistic conclusions demanding that the larger community, not just the solitary individual, must become ethically responsible if the classic existential tenet of authenticity is to be achieved. In order to establish this claim, I identify key passages in Invisible Man that indicate Ellison's desire to engage the existential movement. Writings from Camus and Sartre provide the foundation for comparison between Ellison's work and the French based philosophy. This background provides the groundwork to explore Ellison's deviations from the existential forms of his day. These departures have significant implications for Ellison's view of a socially productive individual, and therefore of his message in Invisible Man. In order to document the prevalence of existentialism in Ellison's literary consciousness, I then discuss its rise and decline in postwar New York. I also outline what is known about Ellison's relationship to the movement. Lastly, I conclude with a discussion of the philosophical tradition of existential philosophy and the difference between the philosophy of existence, seen in the Western canon through philosophers like Kierkegaard, and existentialism, one of its popular manifestations that peaked in the 1940s. Separating the two existential movements allows me to explore the tangential way most Ellison critics have associated him with existentialism and advocate for a more inclusive critical discussion of Ellison's relationship to existentialism.
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Kidd, Nina. "CULTURAL COLLISION AND CONSEQUENCE: REDEFINING THE INVISIBLE IN RALPH ELLISON’S INVISIBLE MAN." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1400090957.

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Lowney, Douglas. "Blues Socrates : on the conversion from rhetoric to philosophy in Ralph Ellison's invisible man /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Aymar, Lindsay Ellyn-Megan. "Performing transcendence| Tracing the evolution of the jazz aesthetic in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10102591.

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Music has always been an essential part of the African American experience and takes center stage in Ralph Ellison?s Invisible Man. Musicality flows through every line of the novel and the impact the jazz aesthetic has on the text is undeniable. This project seeks to examine the various ways in which specific elements of the jazz aesthetic appear in the text and represent the emotional journey of the novel?s narrator. Focusing specifically on the techniques of vamping, call and response, and improvisation, this project will trace the ways in which these techniques assist the narrator in overcoming the trauma he has suffered as an African American man in a bigoted American society.

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Reuven, Genuyah S. "Commission of Two Narratives of the Psyche: Reading Poqéakh in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2019. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/170.

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This study focuses on the novels of Quicksand by Nella Larsen and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison to explore the phenomenon of poqéakh (פֹּקֵחַ) through the fictionalized lived experiences of their protagonists, Helga Crane and invisible man. Each novelist’s representation of poqéakh offers a portrait of the protagonists’ psyches. The narratives reveal an unsettling truth for the protagonists, who are members of a population often targeted, stigmatized, and fashioned or re-fashioned by Americans and various environs in American society, that they must assimilate—not only their bodies, but their psyches too to fit the “white man’s pattern” (Larsen 4). Their realities inform them that non-conformity and/or developing or utilizing their intellect is disadvantageous—perceiving is unfavorable. Each protagonist learns that she and he will not only be limited by their imaginations or abilities, but also by persons and constructs within American society keeping them witless and amenable. The environs presented in forms such as schools, jobs, even people who prepare each protagonist to accept all and any disparity (inequality and inequity), they are made to be persistently and surreptitiously instructive. As such, these environs are always educating (or training), always molding the psyches of the protagonists to live within a frame—the construct (American society). These ever informing boundaries thoroughly acquaint each protagonist on “how to scale down [their] desires and dreams so that they will come within reach of possibility” (Thurman 115). Poqéakh leads Helga Crane to perceive the boundaries while it prevents the invisible man from returning to unblissful ignorance, thus, for him, providing momentary periods of lucidity. This study utilizes a qualitative research design and method, and relies on phenomenological theory to successfully analyze the novels and explicate on the representations of poqéakh. As this study will illustrate, Larsen and Ellison offer as representative via their novels two narratives of the diasporic psyche (mind), wherein their protagonists’ experiences of poqéakh lead to some unmitigated facts and disturbing truths about their reality.
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Burris, Lyttron Phillecia. "The psychological castration and emasculation of the black male characters in Ralph Ellison's short fiction and Invisible Man." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1412938749.

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Budd, Patricia Anne. "Sound and Storytelling—An Auditory Angle on Internalized Racism in Invisible Man and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1599777953098973.

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Lacy, Sarah M. "Writing Through the Lower Frequencies: Interpreting the Unnaming and Naming Process within Richard Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1494341009717745.

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Feder, Peter H. "Mythic reinscriptions in W. E. B. Du Bois's The souls of black folk, James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-coloured man, and Ralph Ellison's invisible man." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39042.pdf.

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Dadey, Bruce. "Rhetorics Rising: The Recovery of Rhetorical Traditions in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2789.

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This study suggests, through a rhetorical analysis of the role of orators and oration in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, that literature can be a valuable resource for the study of comparative and contrastive rhetoric; conversely, it also demonstrates that a knowledge of culturally-specific rhetorical and narrative practices is important for understanding ethnic-American novels and their social significance. Written during periods of intense racial upheaval in the United States, Invisible Man and House Made of Dawn are, to use a term coined by George Kennedy, metarhetorics: works that explore, from cross-cultural and intercultural perspectives, the ends and means of rhetoric and the ways in which rhetoric is linked to the formation of individual, ethnic, and national identities. This exploration is undertaken through the diegetic rhetoric of the novels, the depiction of rhetorical practice within their fictional worlds. Ellison's young orator, who vacillates between accommodationist, communist, and African American vernacular rhetorics, and Momaday's alienated protagonist, who is healed through the postcolonial rhetoric of a Peyotist street preacher and the ritual rhetoric of a displaced Navajo chanter, both illustrate how the recovery of traditional rhetorical practices is an integral part of cultural empowerment. The interaction of culturally-specific systems of rhetoric is also embodied in the extradiegetic rhetoric of the novels, the means by which the novels themselves influence their readers. Central to the novels' own rhetorical effectiveness is their authors' strategic appropriation of modernist techniques, which allowed the works to negotiate multiple literary traditions or social contexts, to penetrate and transform the American canon, and to accommodate and affect readers from a broad range of cultural backgrounds.
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VanMeter, Bryan A. "The Color of Invisibility." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2650.

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This thesis is an analysis of Ralph Ellison’s use of color terminology in his novel, Invisible Man. By taking an in depth look at the circumstances in which Ellison uses specific color terms, the reader can ascertain the author’s thoughts on various historical events, as well as the differences between characters in the novel such as Ras, Dr. Bledsoe, and Rinehart.
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Frampton, Sara. "“I Bid My Hideous Progeny Go Forth and Prosper”: Frankenstein’s Homosocial Doubles and Twentieth Century American Literature." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24370.

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This dissertation explores the reoccurrence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein within twentieth-century American novels. While the inaccurate 1931 film version by James Whale remains the best known adaptation of Frankenstein, I argue that Willa Cather, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Chuck Palahniuk return to Shelley’s 1818 novel to critique racist and misogynistic responses to anxieties about gender and racial power in the age of industrial consumer culture. In doing so, I extend existing scholarship on the American Gothic to demonstrate that The Professor’s House, Invisible Man, Beloved, and Fight Club represent a specifically Shelleyan Gothic tradition in twentieth-century American literature. My project draws upon influential feminist and postcolonial readings of Frankenstein and on the theoretical work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and later critics who have developed her theory to show how the twentieth-century novels echo themes and motifs from Shelley’s novel to critique the destructive effects of male homosociality. Each novel contains a protagonist that resembles Victor Frankenstein and responds to historically specific anxieties about gender, race, and industrial technoscience by creating a doppelgänger who enables participation in a homosocial bond that is initially empowering but proves destructive to women, racial minorities, and eventually the creature and creator figures themselves. My reading reveals unexpected similarities between Cather’s The Professor’s House and Palahniuk’s Fight Club. Cather’s novel appears to glorify Tom Outland as the ideal masculine hero but ultimately reveals him to be a monstrous doppelgänger who acts out the Professor’s oppressive impulses; similarly, Fight Club seems to romanticize the male violence instigated by the doppelgänger figure Tyler Durden but actually echoes Shelley’s critique of male homosociality as monstrous. My reading also reveals previously overlooked similarities between Invisible Man and Beloved, both of which feature a black protagonist who surprisingly resembles Victor Frankenstein by creating a doppelgänger to challenge his or her disempowerment by the structures of white male homosociality but end up emulating the destructive homosocial structures they critique. My dissertation shows how all of these writers share Shelley’s critique yet move beyond it by offering alternatives to the destructive cycle of violence, embodied in each case by a female figure who resists or reclaims the position of the abject other in the homosocial triangle.
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Ljungholm, Jonas. "African American Education and Progression in Raplh Ellison's Invisible Man." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131384.

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Abstract Literary portraits of African Americans’ struggles in the United States for a more equal society have provided valuable insights into the pain and hardship they had to endure for a large portion of the United States’ existence. Ralph Ellison’s famous novel Invisible Man is one of those novels and is the primary source for this study. In this novel the unnamed African American protagonist tries to find a place of his own within a segregated society and has to succumb to the white man’s will to be part of American society. Despite the segregation and subjugation, the protagonist believes that he can progress in American society through education, but his development is constantly thwarted because of his skin colour. Ellison utilizes features from the bildungsroman to highlight how differently education works for African Americans and white people, since the traditional progression of the bildungsroman is not possible for the protagonist despite his trying to follow its traditional pattern. The thwarted progression instead seems to move the plot into another type of progression, namely a spiritual progression. I will therefore conclude that education in Invisible Man creates segregation and subjugation and that the protagonist’s progression is subverted into a spiritual progression. How the protagonist’s journey can be subverted is related to how power structures and discourses influence people’s actions and beliefs. I will use Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and The Archaeology of Knowledge to explain how power structures and discourses enable segregation, subjugation and a spiritual progression. Furthermore, the result will reveal that, because of surrounding power structures and discourses, the protagonist cannot do anything in this American society other than conform to prevailing power structures or hide himself until he knows how to battle these structures. Keywords: Education; Segregation; Bildungsroman; Michel Foucault; African American.

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Gunning, Roxane. "Knowledge of self : identidy negociation and invisible man." Thèse, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/17586.

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Wang, Shu-hua, and 王淑華. "Re-vision of the Invisible Other: A Reading of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02630503242715774055.

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國立政治大學
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Deeply inculcated by double cultural heritages, Ellison's literary status and achievement are beyond question. Though both attacked and applauded, his artistic works impregnated with profundity move beyond the racial boundary. His Invisible Man both microscopically touches on the sorrowful black history and macroscopically lays bare mankind's invisibility to intersubjectivity and the obscurity between reality and appearance in the cosmos. Through the analysis of the western binary system with complicity of power and discourse which excludes the denigrated Other, this thesis aims to depict how black subjectivity and black cultural and literary tradition are dismembered and silenced. It attempts to re-see and reconstruct the distorted black subjectivity and literary tradition put in bracket. The first chapter introduces Ellison' sbiographical background, his ideas, and literary techniques. Chapter two focuses on black subject formation under the control of discourse and power. Chapter three expounds the dilemma of black double-consciousness and black decentered identity by partially borrowing the concept of differences of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Chapter four poses the problem of reconstruction of black tradition and its subversive strategies. The final chapter examines the symbiotic and intensified relationbetween blacks and whites and seeks to find a way out by Ellison's integrationist advocation of multiple possibilities.
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Quieto, Michael Theodore. "Queerly invisible queer readings, theories of the fetish and signifyin(g) in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man /." 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/50862958.html.

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Fan, Mei-chin, and 范美琴. "Traversing the Boundary: (Dis-)placement and (Re-)location in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40588139093210754224.

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外國語文學系
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Abstract Racial inequality in American society often manifests itself in the hegemonic power’s demarcation of boundaries between cultures, races, and spaces. This thesis studies the black-and-white relationships in Ellison’s Invisible Man by delving into the problematic of space in the novel. In this thesis, my study is focused on examining the protagonist-narrator’s dis-placement and re-location. As a Southern black youth, he is mis-placed and dis-placed in the racist society. Physically, he is kept moving from place to place; socially, he is rejected and dis-located, unable to fit in the white men’s world. This thesis includes an introduction, a main body of three chapters, and a conclusion. In light of Lefebvre’s spatial theory, I analyze the relations of whites and blacks in the novel through an investigation into the three modes of spatial assembly that produce space. Its main argument is about how the white’s hegemony and supremacy over blacks are embodied on various forms of spatial practices, representational spaces, and representations of space. Chapter One proposes a synthetical reading of the spatial theories of Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Edward W. Said, and Abdul R. JanMohamed, providing a theoretical framework on which my study and interpretation of Invisible Man are based. Chapter Two demonstrates that the white’s production of space aims to confine blacks and thus entails the problems of racial inequality and racial conflicts. Through an analysis of the modes of spatial assembly in the novel, the physical and social space of blacks and how they are produced are laid bare. In Chapter Three, by applying Foucault's theory of heterotopias, I interpret the protagonist-narrator’s movement down to the underground as an act of revolt by which he inverts the white’s space and turns it into a space of his own. By this spatial practice, he becomes an intellectual in exile who speaks truth to the white. His spatial practice transforms the hole into a representational space that not only subverts the original representation of space imposed on the hole, but also challenges the totalizing and valorizing spatial practice of the white world. Thus, he re-locates himself in a space of “worldliness-without-world and homelessness-as-home” and becomes, in JanMohamed’s terms, a specular border intellectual.
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Piňosová, Alžběta. "Pojem sebedefinování: emersonovské principy v Neviditelném Ralpha Ellisona a Synovi černého lidu Richarda Wrighta." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-297604.

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The works of the nineteenth-century American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson continue to be inspiring particularly due to their empowering effect on the individual. It is especially Emerson's concepts of the sovereignty of the individual, the importance of self-definition, the view of life as a transitory flow, and the relationship between freedom and fate which can be practically and usefully applied in the life of an individual. It is possible, then, to understand and evaluate Emerson's works through the practical effects of his concepts, in other words through the prism of pragmatism. Emerson's empowering philosophy can be of use especially to disempowered groups such as African Americans. The Emersonian themes which are to be found in the works of various African-American non-fiction writers such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr. and Cornel West testify to the relevance of Emerson for this minority group. In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Richard Wright's Native Son, two African-American novels, Emersonian principles are shown to be of utmost importance for the positive development of the protagonists.
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Wang, Yuan-Yang, and 王遠洋. "From Aesthetics, Politics to Afro-American Expression: A Critique of the Criticisms on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43225054446054449839.

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國立交通大學
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This thesis mainly discusses the linkage between Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Afro-American expression to explore the aporia of aesthetics and politics in the Black Aesthetic of the 1960s since the Harlem renaissance. Art and protest in the history of Afro-American literature is an inherent issue, and it engages the aesthetic goal and political goal for the black writers. On the one hand, Ellison is defined as a “life-world modernist” who emphasizes the role of the reader in a sense of Hans Robert Jauss’s reception theory in this thesis. From a modernist, a signifying modernist to a life-world modernist, Ellison does not recognize the label of art for art’s sake. Instead, he releases the work of art to the common readers. This is one of the features of Afro-American expressive culture in Ellison’s sense. On the other hand, I situate the negative criticisms on Invisible Man, particularly that of Irving Howe, Larry Neal, and Addison Gayle, to show that their political aims make them ignore “the forms of things unknown,” the Afro-American expression. Reasonably, Ellison disregards the novel as a piece of protest writing due to Afro-American expression. The final part is the textual analysis of Invisible Man. Through his personal experience, Ellison carries the life-world of the black people with writing and de-materializes the Afro-American expression which is based on art and protest. From this point of view, Invisible Man leads the readers to perceive the experience of experiencing of the life-world and escape the binarism of aesthetics and politics in the Black Aesthetic during the 1960s.
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Ardeneaux, Edward John. "Textual (dis)connections electrification, narrative failure, and the bildgungsroman in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and E.L. Doctorow's The book of Daniel /." 2008. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/ardeneaux%5Fedward%5Fj%5F200808%5Fma.

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Feder, Peter H. "Mythic reinscriptions in W.E.B. Du Bois's The souls of Black folk, James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-coloured man, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man." Thesis, 1999. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/703/1/MQ39042.pdf.

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Those mythic structures which have significantly defined and supported the idea of "America" have consistently ignored the contribution, or even the very existence of the American black population. Meaningful participation in the promise of these myths, loosely bound up in the notion of The American Dream, and defined in texts such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, has been systematically denied to America's black population. W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk initiated a vigorous literary attempt to recuperate black self-esteem, to independently fashion black identity, and to create an environment in which blacks and whites could contribute equally in future prosperity and progress. To forward his agenda, Du Bois undertakes a relentless deconstruction of prevalent white American traditional and mythic misconceptions, and imaginatively proposes alternative mythological constructs. This study investigates Du Bois's representation of the significance of myth to the black experience in America, and the discursive response contained in subsequent African-American texts: namely, in James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.
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