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The Visible Invisible Man
- Author(s):
- Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
- Date:
- 2005
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Twentieth century, Psychoanalysis
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- Ralph Waldo Ellison, the invisible man, 20th-century American literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/846e-8f33
- Abstract:
- Explores how Ralph Ellison's "The Invisible Man" delineates a repeated pattern by the invisible man, whereby he associates with grandiose people of some sort of esteem, and ends up actually being seen by them in a way he rather favours. These figures underestimate him at first, look past him, but eventually draw focus, something they are made out as only doing by his demonstrating himself distinct either as threat or prize. Garnering this acquisition, and then leaving to obtain it from others still foreign to penetrating through to something ostensibly core, something ostensibly individualized, distinct and worthy, about him, is his regular life pattern. He's delineated as a master at making those with a glassy eye, a glassy gaze, towards him, attend to him with some real clarity, some valid registration of the actual person before them.
- Notes:
- Undergraduate paper.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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