Race Relations in Black and White: Visual Impairment as a Racialized and Gendered Metaphor in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno"

While scholarship has increasingly acknowledged Ralph Ellison's indebtedness to Herman Melville, whose novella "Benito Cereno" (1855) was used as an epigraph to Invisible Man (1952), fewer scholars have discussed their common literary foci on blindness as a racial and gendered visual...

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Veröffentlicht in:Atlantis. - The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN). - 39(2017), 2, Seite 29-46
1. Verfasser: Armengol, Josep M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2017
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Atlantis
Schlagworte:Behavioral sciences Social sciences Philosophy Health sciences Arts