1. "The work must be political. I
... in it somehow it's tainted" (Toni Morrison). Discuss the nature of what you consider to be the "political thrust" in any two works studied on the module. The novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is, in its entirety, a political text. Based in America in a time of extreme confusion for the Black American, still living under the control of segregation but no longer slaves ... element in his society, people who are also feared and reviled by the average American as the Red threat. Ralph Ellison makes the reader aware of the injustices and irrationality of racism. The prologue is not the na...
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