ENGLISH 3EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Alain Leroy Locke
19 Oct 2018
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Intro to background of the period ellison is writing. Organized domestic protest held in an international sphere. 1954 brown vs. board of education decision by supreme court (cid:498)white flight(cid:499) whites left city centres to become poor ghettos, so their kids. Ralph waldo ellison biography (1914-1994) could be segregated from afam kids. Joined the merchant marine in 1943 (ww2) although he had little faith in the. Discharged in 1945, he started to write invisible. York university; published a book of essays and stories titled going to the. Territory in 1986; died in 1994, leaving the manuscript of a second novel, published posthumously as juneteenth. He is attracted to some of the white writing styles and the negro writing styles background. Themes finding oneself, failure to find ones own voice is wrong. His major concerns as a writer african american and negro american culture. He sees himself bringing these two literary traditions together. He sees himself as a western african american.
