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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Ralph Ellison"”.
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The Anti-Racist Avant-Garde: Modernist Legacies and Experimentation in Ralph Ellison and James Joyces’ postcolonial and racial subjects
When Ralph Ellison won the National Book Award for his 1952 novel Invisible Man, he cemented himself as a crucial figure in the American literary canon. His depictions of the difficulties in African American life remain crucial and relevant to this day, seventy years after their publication. The …
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Archival Vagabonds: 20th-Century American Fiction and the Archive in Novelistic Practice
… practices--Claude McKay, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Jack Kerouac. In juxtaposing their dual roles as public novelists and private archivists, I expose how their literary practices echo with core concepts in archival theory and position the novel as an alternative and superior site …
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Educational Encounters: (Re)Writing Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil and the U.S.
… Weldon Johnson, Rachel de Queiroz, Romeu Crusoé, Ralph Ellison, Lygia Fagundes Telles, and Angela Jackson—I analyze how shifts in educational access during the 1910s–1970s influenced these writers’ portrayals of identity as something learned and performed. Central to this study is the argument …
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Against death: the American novel after the end of the author
… 1993) by Edith Wharton, Juneteenth (1999) by Ralph Ellison, and The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace—and to elaborate in the process new conceptual models of authorship and individuality. Against Death asks us to recognize an individual author’s creative prowess not as singularly …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… diaspora. In the first chapter, I argue that Ralph Ellison incorporates the transnational fusion of Afro-Cuban jazz both thematically and structurally in his landmark novel Invisible Man. By integrating the Cuban rhythms of the rumba beneath the jazz aesthetic in the text, Ellison formally …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… diaspora. In the first chapter, I argue that Ralph Ellison incorporates the transnational fusion of Afro-Cuban jazz both thematically and structurally in his landmark novel Invisible Man. By integrating the Cuban rhythms of the rumba beneath the jazz aesthetic in the text, Ellison formally …
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Themes of Exodus and Revolution in Ellison's Invisible Man, Morrison's Beloved, and Doctorow's Ragtime
… 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 …
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The Post-WWII American Picaro as Prophet of Human Dignity: A Study of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, and Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King
… “What is man, and how can we recover him?” Ralph Ellison, Flannery O’Connor, and Saul Bellow each adapted the picaresque genre to participate in what Grief calls “discourse of the crisis of man.”</p> <p>In <em>Invisible Man</em> (1952), Ellison has his picaro articulate an American identity …
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Not Quite American, Not Quite European: Performing "Other" Claims to Exceptionality In Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South
… Welty, Carme Riera, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Ralph Ellison. As these writers, among others, wrestle with ideas of Spain and the South, they also engage questions of how national identity is confirmed and contested via images of gender, race, and tourist production.</p> <p>Ultimately, my …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
… of the automobile through close readings of Ralph Ellison, Hunter S. Thompson, and Allen Ginsberg. Furthermore, I argue that artists responded to this imbalance by incorporating electronic communications equipment and the automobile into their compositional process. Examining the production …