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A 6 page essay that examines several of Ellison’s short stories, as well as his novel Invisible Man, as these works demonstrate that Ellison frequently addressed two literary ideas. The first concerns the motif of initiation, which is a literary device that affords Ellison a means of critiquing society due to the fact that this device involves the perspective of an innocent. The second idea concerns Ellison’s belief that poor blacks and whites should unite across the barrier of color as they had common concerns and experiences. As this suggests, Ellison’s political viewpoints are evident throughout his fiction. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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War II American literature, as it has been indicated as such in three different surveys published between 1965 and 1990 (Mazurek 109). Following Ellisons death in 1994, editor John F.
Callahan compiled two posthumous volumes: one is a collection of short stories, Flying Home and Other Stories; and the other is a compilation of Ellisons collected essays (Mazurek 109).
Examination of several of Ellisons short stories, as well as his novel Invisible Man, demonstrates that Ellison frequently addressed two literary ideas. The first
concerns the motif of initiation, which is a literary device that affords Ellison a means of critiquing society due to the fact that this device involves the perspective of an
innocent. The second idea concerns Ellisons belief that poor blacks and whites should unite across the barrier of color as they had common concerns and experiences. As this suggests, Ellisons
political viewpoints are evident throughout his fiction. Ellisons political orientation in the 1930s and early 40s is clearly indicated in a letter to his mother dated August 30, 1937, Ellison
expressed his disgust with the inability, or unwillingness, of American society to address the plight of people who are "hungry half our lives" (Ellison "American" 36). He does on to
mention the civil war in Spain and the Communist state in Russia as instances in which people grew "tired of seeing the rich have everything and the poor nothing" and
he also expresses his resentment that the "rich bastards" were trying dismantle the WPA (a 1930s New Deal work program), which he believed would be tantamount to denying a "poor
man the right to live in this country for which we have fought and died" (Ellison "American" 36). In his short story "A Party Down at the Square," Ellison uses
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