초록

This paper examines the theme of race in Invisible Man which is constructed and transformed sociohistorically through competing political projects and through the necessary and ineluctable link between the structural and cultural dimensions of race in the U. S. in Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s “Racial Formation” theory. The main character of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, who is black but eloquent, has been analyzed according to four steps suggested by the two critics in their racial formation theory, whose racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. The racial project superintended by white people is a broad, inescapable web catching and moving black people in the U. S. In this project, “I” ends up being exploited and excluded from mainstream society, even though he has a superior ability in terms of a man’s worth or value.

키워드

Ralph Ellison, racial project, double-consciousness, Invisible Man

참고문헌(15)open

  1. [단행본] Du Bois, W. E. B. / 1903 / Of Our Spiritual Strivings , The Souls of Black Folk / Penguin

  2. [단행본] Du Bois, W. E. B / 1903 / Of The Wings Of Atlant a , The Souls of Black Folk / Penguin

  3. [단행본] Du Bois, W. E. B / 1903 / Of Mr. Booker T. Washington And Others , The Souls of Black Folk / Penguin

  4. [단행본] Ellison,Ralph / 1952 / Invisible Man / Random House

  5. [단행본] Emerson, Ralph Waldo / 1960 / The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Cambridge: Harvard UP

  6. [단행본] Du Bois, W. E. B. / 1906 / The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson , 12 vols / Houghton

  7. [단행본] Du Bois, W. E. B. / 1983 / Essays and Letters / Library of America

  8. [단행본] Fredrickson,George M. / 1981 / White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History / Oxford UP

  9. [단행본] Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. / 2002 / Writing Race and the Difference It Makes , Race, Writing And Difference / Chicago Univ

  10. [단행본] Hae Sung, Hwang / 1992 / A Study in Race Leadership, 1895-1915 / Seoul National Univ

  11. [단행본] Juan E. San. Jr. / 2002 / Allegories of Asian American Experience , Racism and Cultural Studies / Duke University

  12. [단행본] Morrison,Toni / 1992 / Playing in the Dark / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,Inc.

  13. [단행본] Omi, Michael / 1994 / Racial Formation in the United States: from the 1960s to the 1990s. Rev / Routledge

  14. [단행본] Schweitzer,Albert / 1977 / A Conversation with Ralph Ellison , Y Bird / New York Univ.

  15. [단행본] Twain,Mark / 1894 / Pudd’nhead Wilson / Connecticut