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Ulysses in Black
In this groundbreaking work, Patrice D. Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the classical tradition can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity.
Ulysses in Black demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors have been students of classical languages, literature, and mythologies by such writers as Homer, Euripides, and Seneca.
Ulysses in Black closely analyzes classical themes (the nature of love and its relationship to the social, Dionysus in myth as a parallel to the black protagonist in the American scene, misplaced Ulyssean manhood) as seen in the works of such African American writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Countee Cullen. Rankine finds that the merging of a black esthetic with the classics—contrary to expectations throughout American culture—has often been a radical addressing of concerns including violence against blacks, racism, and oppression. Ultimately, this unique study of black classicism becomes an exploration of America’s broader cultural integrity, one that is inclusive and historic.
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Reconstructing Individualism:A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison
America has a love-hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy of individualist ethics in four major American thinkers-Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, John Dewey, and Ralph Ellison. These writers' shared commitments to pluralism (metaphysical and cultural), experimentalism, and a melioristic stance toward value and reform led them to describe the self as inherently relational. Accordingly, they articulate models of selfhood that are socially engaged and ethically responsible, and they argue that a reconceived-or, in Dewey's term, \"reconstructed\"-individualism is not merely compatible with but necessary to democratic community. Conceiving selfhood and community as interrelated processes, they call for an ongoing reform of social conditions so as to educate and liberate individuality, and, conversely, they affirm the essential role individuality plays in vitalizing communal efforts at reform.
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The selected letters of Ralph Ellison
\"The previously unpublished letters of the ... author of Invisible Man [offer] insights into the riddle of American identity, the writer's craft, and his own life and work\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Race to Primitivism: Ralph Ellison's Transatlantic Musings and the Italian Reception of Invisible Man
This article traces the ways in which the discourse of primitivism runs through Ralph Ellison's view of 1950s Europe and the Italian reception of his novel Invisible Man , published in Italian in 1953. The overlaps in the understanding of the term primitive, widely used in the 1950s transatlantic world, give way to fundamental distinctions. Italian critics use primitivism to maintain African American literature at the margin of the Euro-American canon. By discounting its aesthetic features to focus on its sociological analysis, Italian reviewers foreclosed conversations of analogous experiences in Italian history, such as racial relations and colonialism. Ellison reverses the gaze to locate primitivism in postwar Europe itself, where the engagement with the recent horrors of its history and the worldviews that made them possible had yet to emerge.
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African American political thought and American culture : the nation's struggle for racial justice
\"This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstruction of key American values has the potential to energize American citizenship today\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ralph Ellison and the Scientific Management of Slavery and Education
As a distinctively American philosophy, pragmatism provides the philosophical foundation for many progressive thinkers in the African American intellectual tradition. For some, pragmatism can serve as an instrument for addressing our contemporary racial challenges and the afterlife of slavery in the United States. Ironically, it is challenging to situate Ralph Ellison comfortably in this intellectual lineage—even though several scholars have located and studied him and his work within the context of pragmatism. In fact, Ellison’s polemics and contradictions mirror the problems and paradoxes one often finds among leading pragmatic thinkers in the Progressive Era, including John Dewey and Frederick Winslow Taylor. However, few studies consider what we can learn when Ellison’s work is imagined within the context of Dewey’s and Taylor’s competing appreciations of scientific management. This interdisciplinary survey explores this context by revealing how a recalibration of Ellison’s writing can help us to see how scientific management and its imperative emerge in slavery and later proliferate in American education. Based on this evidence, it becomes more difficult to argue that pragmatism can serve as an effective tool for addressing and transforming our contemporary racial challenges and the afterlife of slavery in the United States.
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