ENGL 3550 Lecture Notes - Ralph Ellison, Louis Armstrong, Jeff Wall
18 Mar 2013
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How voice emerges from hole: i to you to he . Constitution and reconstitution of i throughout novel. Remaking the i and his own subjectivity. E. g. interrogations in factory hospital: interrogation about who he is ch 11 and then ch 12 begins with him coming up from subway sort of rebirth. Also slipperiness of identity: shifting names, identities, disguise, misrecognition. Sight, blindness: accompanied by violence and laughter (5) Light from monopolated light and power: drawing on white power. To give himself power, surrounding himself with light. After invisible man by ralph ellison, the prologue, jeff wall (1999-2000) Battle royal: black boys blinded by white blindfolds imposed by white men (21 ff) Motifs of eyes, sight, blindness throughout novel. Vet in the golden day on blindness and race relations (95) Light blinding protagonist at first speech for brotherhood (338) False vision brother jack"s false eye (474: he starts to see things better as reinhart.
