The Master-slave Dialectic in the Writings of Ralph Ellison: Toward a Neo-Hegelian SynthesisIndiana University, 1990 - 438 pages |
Contents
AfroAmerican Oppression | 75 |
History of Dialectic | 130 |
The Ideal | 139 |
Copyright | |
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aesthetic African Afro Afro-American Alain Locke ambivalence Angela Davis artist attitude audience battle royal become believe Bildungsroman black American Black World black writers blacks and whites century chaos chapter claims conception confrontation consciousness contradiction critics cultural dehumanization democracy dominate Ellison's Invisible Ellison's novel Ellison's writings Emerson existence experience feel fiction Franklin Frazier freedom grandfather Gunnar Myrdal Harlem Hegel Hegelian human Ibid idea ideal images imagination individual John Henrik Clarke Kardiner and Ovesey literary lives master master-slave dialectic meaning mind moral narrator nation nature negation Negro Norton novelist one's oppression oppressor Parmenides perhaps Perspective of Literature Phenomenology philosophical anthropology political problem protagonist psychological race racial Ralph Ellison reader reality recognized Richard Wright self-consciousness sense Shadow and Act slave slavery social spirit stereotypes struggle symbolic Territory things thinking transcend Trueblood truth unity University violence vision white American word world view York