Racism and Redemption : Wisdom from Invisible Man
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Invisible Man (1952), by the African-American writer Ralph Ellison (1914-1994), is one of the most remarkable novels of the twentieth century. Ellison, by giving us an aesthetic vision of America's misadventure in race relations, opens us up to see it in a new way and perhaps to consider more deeply some of its more difficult realities, the wholesale subjugation of an entire group who arrived with some of the first settlers to Jamestown, Virginia (early seventeenth century). Through Ellison's aesthetic we can also see more clearly some of the sources of racism. I will also look to Stephen J. Gould (1941-2002) for a history of America's most powerful belief system, its empirical science, aspects of which unfortunately have become politicized, used in many ways to reinforce racism even to our own day, something Ellison very clearly brought out in the novel. Invisible Man offers a genuine redemption from racism, which the reader must reach a bit to grasp.
- 関西学院大学の論文
- 2005-01-31