Specific Languages Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-32220 OAI: oai:DiVA. 30Įllison, electricity, otherness, postcolonialism National Category Place, publisher, year, edition, pages2014. The essay will also draw a parallel between Invisible Man and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in order to further clarify the issue of Otherness in connection to electricity, and the aesthetic value of electricity in literature. Three main episodes will be analysed, in order to prove these claims: the Battle Royal, the Liberty Paints Factory Hospital and the Brotherhood Speech. This will be done by performing a close reading of the novel focusing on the way Ellison uses the metaphor of electricity to deconstruct the hierarchy between black and white on several levels. It will argue that electricity in the novel is used as a metaphor in discourses of power by the oppressive white society, as well as a means of resistance for the protagonist/narrator, who is socially invisible because of his race. Bledsoe, the president of the college from which Ralph Ellisons narrator is expelled in Invisible Man (1952), is pivotal to the novels structure, for it. This essay will investigate the role of electricity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, in connection to the concept of Otherness, as a result of race differences. 2014 (English) Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits Student thesis Abstract A once sensible scientist is engulfed by the power he feels when unseen, and this power mongering eventually leads into insanity.
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