Sökning: "Ralph Ellison"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden Ralph Ellison.

  1. 1. Ralph Ellison and the Postcolonial Identity of Black Invisibility

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Victoria Wendel; [2022]
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    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to analyse the postcolonial identity of black ‘invisibility’ in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952). It conceptualizes and explains the extended metaphor over the novel, of black identity and how black people are made invisible by historical and cultural factors. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Kultur och syntax: expliciteringar i en litteraturvetenskaplig text

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Översättarutbildningen

    Författare :Niklas Löfgren; [2019]
    Nyckelord :litteraturvetenskap; översättning; vetenskapligt skrivande; expliciteringar; funktionell global strategi; afroamerikansk kultur; rasrelationer; James Baldwin; Herman Beavers; Ralph Ellison; the black experience; the dozens; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Denna magisteruppsats baseras på en översättning av drygt 6000 ord av en komparativ litteraturvetenskaplig text av Herman Beavers om de amerikanska författarna James Baldwin och Ralph Ellison. Uppsatsen består av tre delar. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Failed American Dream? Representation of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Johan Åkesson; [2018]
    Nyckelord :American Dream; Fitzgerald; Ellison; 1920s; USA; racism; social criticism; social equality; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : The American Dream has been a central theme of American literature since the early nineteenth century. The American Dream has subsequently become a tool for depicting the uniqueness of America. F. LÄS MER

  5. 4. African American Education and Progression in Raplh Ellison's Invisible Man

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Jonas Ljungholm; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Education; African American; Michel Foucault; Bildungsroman; Segregation;

    Sammanfattning :                                   Abstract Literary portraits of African Americans’ struggles in the United States for a more equal society have provided valuable insights into the pain and hardship they had to endure for a large portion of the United States’ existence. Ralph Ellison’s famous novel Invisible Man is one of those novels and is the primary source for this study. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Invisible Power : Electricity and Social Visibility in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Lucia Hera Culda; [2014]
    Nyckelord :ellison; electricity; otherness; postcolonialism;

    Sammanfattning : This essay will investigate the role of electricity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, in connection to the concept of Otherness, as a result of race differences. It will argue that electricity in the novel is used as a metaphor in discourses of power by the oppressive white society, as well as a means of resistance for the protagonist/narrator, who is socially invisible because of his race. LÄS MER