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Biography and the Political Unconscious: Ellison, Toomer, Jameson, and the Politics of Symptomatic Reading
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 36, Number 4, Fall 2013
- pp. 649-671
- 10.1353/bio.2013.0043
- Article
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As demonstrated by the workings of the political unconscious in Jean Toomer’s Cane and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, investigation of authorial biography is an indispensable component of Marxist literary criticism. Symptomatic reading, while derogated by the advocates of “surface reading,” remains crucial to textual interpretation.