ENGL 3550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ralph Ellison, Gettysburg Address, African-American Music
1 Mar 2017
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Donald trump as humpty dumpty: two way effect, changes the image and the children"s story associate each with another. Invisible man, the bell jar, lady lazarus: first person narrators and speaker, how the narrator or speaker forges her or his identity, reader"s access to interiority, subjectivity, introspection, how narrator or speaker experiences and survives society. Some moments in black political history: post-1865, radical reconstruction and its failure, after civil war, attempt to provide what was promised in terms of equal rights to af. Amer ppl employment, treatment: president of time enforce us army to protect af. 1914, ralph ellison born in oklahoma: westerner , studied music (jazz trumpeter) at tuskegee institute, alabama, school made for black ppl, to nyc in 1930s to become a writer, writes invisible man here. 1945, end of wwii: af amer soldiers return to u. s, how could you treet a negro as equal in war and then deny him equality during times of peace? (intro)
