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Ellison's "Invisible Man": An Aesthetic Revaluation by Dr. Gary Lemco (Virtual)
by Harpur Edge
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Ralph Ellison's seminal novel of American racism, "Invisible Man," has become even more relevant in our troubled times. Given the Classical, philosophical injunction: Know thyself! Americans could benefit from a reconsideration of the multifarious musical, literary, and cinematic leitmotifs that bind Ellison's classic odyssey, his 1952 exploration of black-American identity.
This 60 minute presentation hopes to provide an overview of Ralph Ellison's eclectic use of artistic styles, but especially cinema in relating our nameless narrator's cyclical tale of self-discovery. The density of Ellison's allusions, with their internal dramatic consistency, will alert those who attend this seminar as to how the impact of such disparate works as those by Dante, St. Augustine, Beethoven, Joyce, Eliot, Lindsay, and American - even European - cinema has directed Ellison's attempt to realize a "Jazz symphony" of his epic novel.