Approaches to Teaching Ellison's Invisible Man

by Parr, Susan Resneck; Savery, Pancho

• ISBN13: 9780873525060
• ISBN10: 087352506X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-10-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series	p. vii
Preface to the Volume	p. ix
Materials
Readings for Students	p. 3
The Instructor's Library	p. 4
Reference	p. 4
Critical Studies	p. 4
Background Studies	p. 10
Music	p. 15
Approaches
Introduction	p. 19
The Student and Teacher as Readers of Invisible Man	p. 26
The Use of Culture and Artistic Freedom: The Right of a Minority Writer	p. 26
Making Invisible Man Matter	p. 31
Discovering an Art of the Self in History: A Principle of Afro-American Life	p. 37
Learning to Listen to Lower Frequencies	p. 43
A Deeper Literacy: Teaching Invisible Man from Aboriginal Ground	p. 51
The Novel and Its Afro-American, American, and European Traditions	p. 58
Invisible Man and the American Way of Intellectual History	p. 58
"Not like an arrow, but a boomerang": Ellison's Existential Blues	p. 65
Ellison's Narrator as Emersonian Scholar	p. 75
"An American Negro Idiom": Invisible Man and the Politics of Culture	p. 79
Losing It "even as he finds it": The Invisible Man's Search for Identity	p. 86
Invisible Man and the European Tradition	p. 96
Invisible Man and the Comic Tradition	p. 102
Invisible Man in an Ethnic Literature Course	p. 107
Teaching the Novel Thematically	p. 112
Understanding the Lower Frequencies: Names and the Novel	p. 112
Focusing on the Prologue and the Epilogue	p. 119
"Ball the jack": Surreality, Sexuality, and the Role of Women in Invisible Man	p. 124
Sample Study Guides	p. 133
Participants in Survey of Ellison Instructors and Contributors to the Volume	p. 139
Works Cited	p. 140
Index	p. 151
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