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Fooling Invisibility - A Bakhtinian reading of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man": Applying Bakhtinian theory to Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"

Fooling Invisibility - A Bakhtinian reading of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man": Applying Bakhtinian theory to Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"

Sellen, Anselm Maria

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ISBN10: 3640722116
ISBN13: 9783640722112
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Oct 25 2010
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Siegen (FB 3 Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Chapter One Time-space and space-time: Consequences of the Chronotope in Introduction There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. - Ralph Ellison [...] the study of verbal art can and must overcome the divorce between an abstract formal approach and an equally abstract ideological approach. Form and content in discourse are one, once we understand that verbal discourse is a social phenomenon - social throughout its entire range and in each and every of its factors, from the sound image to the furthest reaches of abstract meaning. - Mikhail Bakhtin _____________ In the process of preparation for this MA thesis I was on the verge of abandoning the project. I was afraid Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man would become far too intimate for me, the subject too tense, the motifs too disturbing, the language too intrinsic. I feared that the novel would keep concealed and invisible the wealth I suspect between the lines. I did not, and I still don't like Ellison's Invisible Man. It felt uncomfortable and disturbing the first time I read it and with every additional reading the ambivalence I felt increased. I sympathize and fully share Ross Possnock's sentiment on Ralph Ellison's novel: Ellison makes reading a 'gymnast's struggle' (6). Despite all efforts, reading Invisible Man remained an uncomfortable and exhausting struggle until the very end. Eventually Invisible Man provided many experiences all adding up to some very disturbing revelations about my own racialized positionality. I began to scrutinize, my thought process pertaining to race, trying to expose any possible racist notions. The challenge was and still is painful and at times causes

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