Identifying a Novel: Identifying Diaspora in the Blues of The Invisible Man .
This paper explores the relation between cultural diaspora and the blues as represented in Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man. The main argument of this paper is that the Black experience is challenged by the literary text because the cultural foundations of literary are of White colonialism, and White dominance. Ellison's effort to represent the Black experience can be understood as a project that aimed to disclose its own impossibility, that the Black identity could not be described in text, but rather could only be alluded to through imagery, rhythm, tonality, and music. 10 pgs. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
