Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life - Tapa blanda

Watts, Jerry Gafio

 
9780807844779: Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life
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ISBN 10: 0807844772 ISBN 13: 9780807844779
Editorial: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Sinopsis

Before and after writing Invisible Man, novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison fought to secure a place as a black intellectual in a white-dominated society. In this sophisticated analysis of Ellison’s cultural politics, Jerry Watts examines the ways in which black artists and thinkers attempt to establish creative intellectual spaces for themselves. Using Ellison as a case study, Watts makes important observations about the role of black intellectuals in America today.

Watts argues that black intellectuals have had to navigate their way through a society that both denied them the resources, status, and encouragement available to their white peers and alienated them from the rest of their ethnic group. For Ellison to pursue meaningful intellectual activities in the face of this marginalization demanded creative heroism, a new social and artistic stance that challenges cultural stereotypes.

For example, Ellison first created an artistic space for himself by associating with Communist party literary circles, which recognized the value of his writing long before the rest of society was open to his work. In addition, to avoid prescriptive white intellectual norms, Ellison developed his own ideology, which Watts terms the ’blues aesthetic.’ Watts’s ambitious study reveals a side of Ellison rarely acknowledged, blending careful criticism of art with a wholesale engagement with society.

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Jerry Gafio Watts is associate professor of American studies at Trinity College.

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Editorial
The University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0807844772
ISBN 13 
9780807844779
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Número de páginas
172
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ISBN 10:  0807821640 ISBN 13:  9780807821640
Editorial: The University of North Carolina..., 1994
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