AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Close Reading, Invisibility, Double Consciousness

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What it means to engage in notion of americans. Engaging from a place of being an ethnic minority. Ralph ellison: (cid:396)as i see it, the novel has always been bound up with the idea of nationhood. What is it that stopped us from attaining the ideal? (cid:397) Return to question of national collectivity: successes & failures. Reflection of what ideals (ex declaration of independence) Abstraction of an idea and a symbol. The events of vietnam, the importance of the context of the work. This one is diff than those of 30 years before. Asam lit => minority lit minority lit (cid:396)minority(cid:397) Example and entryway toward understanding the larger question of american and. Asking the question about the we by asking question about the i. Concept of (cid:396)minority(cid:397) has been central to the founding of american life and governance. At least 5 metaphors to describe the exp: Invisible man exp of feeling invisible, african american exp of 20s.

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