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Teju Cole and Ralph Ellison's Aesthetics of Invisibility
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 50, Number 4, December 2017
- pp. 103-119
- 10.1353/mos.2017.0055
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
Considering "invisibility" as both subject matter and aestheticizing mode of experience, this essay uses the case studies of two American novels—Teju Cole's Open City and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man—to explore how a culturally specific, racially charged subject is mapped outward to occupy a broader aesthetic realm.
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