Question One
In Invisible Man, it is only when the narrator realizes and embraces his invisibility that he turns alive in his own eyes. Then he sees "the darkness of lightness" (6), sense "the Blackness of Blackness" (9), feel the exhilaration of the blues and experiences the visibility of invisibility. Through recognizing the blackness in blackness, the invisible man evokes and invokes the aesthetic of the blues. By remembering the death of Lighting Hopkins, Mackey appropriately signifies on the foundation of the blues. Ellison's narrative also articulates linguistic musicality, as his narrator signs of the invisibility.
In the 60 years span between the publication of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man(1952) and the present day, the metaphor of invisibility, initially used by Ellison to describe the feeling that black Americans had of being second class people, has been taken up and applied to other minority groups both inside and outside the United States. Set in pre-civil rights America, Ralph Ellison’s novel chronicles the trajectory of black and who is aware that his ethic conspicuousness relegates him to social invisibility in the eye of white Americans with racial prejudice. The novel, which provides an insightful entry top in the complex dynamic of racial otherness evidence some of the salient personality that involve ethnic visibility turned into metaphorical invisibility as well as contextual makeup psychological consequences of the de facto ‘invisibility’ that involves ethnically obvious other. In Invisible Man Primo gets caught up in the illegal drug economy in Philippe Bourgeois’ ‘In Search of Respect’ which is so aptly used as the title of his book on selling crack in a New York City ghetto.
Question Two
Ochs and Taylor emphasize on the way that narrative construct –and socialize children into a family's hierarchical structure and different family roles identities, including those related to gender as well as generation. In their 100 narrative analysis collected in the dinner time conversation of seven American families, they recognize a pattern that they call "father knows best." In this pattern, --which is not without exception, mothers elicits a narrative form child as well as selects fathers as primary recipients such as "Tell Daddy what you did at school today"; father subsequently judges the child protagonist. Fathers also frequently problematize mothers. Further, while fathers tend to be problematized, instead of problematizes, and children tend to be problematized, more than problematizes, mothers play the two roles in approximately equal amounts. Therefore, narratives and the procedure that follows are produced "put others, fathers, and children in a politics of asymmetry" in the family (Ochs and Taylor 106)
Japanese women's language proves socially filled with powerful truth. In other words, the language of Japanese women is a critical cultural category and the inescapable portion that involves sensible social knowledgeability in modern Japan. The language of women is an issue that involves national reflexive parameter of social change as well as civil order. National opinion polls are often conducted on the cases that involve women's language becoming corrupted. The linguistic consciousness of the way that women communicate has close relations with ideas of culture as well as tradition in the presumption that the language of women is exclusively Japanese, which involves unbroken historical roots in an atypical past of the Japanese and inescapably associated with equal archetypical and traditional Japanese womanhood.
Question Three
When accounts that involve colonial domination are reduced to the production of ideas of modernity, the analysis of nation and nationalism becomes dissociated from capitalists development. David Harvey identifies print capitalism as the agent that creates a modular form of modernity. Subaltern studies share a similar tendency to sideline capitalism. Through studying the reemerging political as well as social movements in the grassroots moderns of intellectual inquiry and seek to address the voices, struggles, and agency of the people at the margin of the society. Scholars associated with his groups are such as Gayatri Spivak. The term subaltern has since found is way in the diverse fields of history anthropology.
The colonial discourse of enlightenment endangers a deep rift that involves national elites as well as laboring individuals. The resistance of unruly traditional behaviors and orderly modern ones is symptomatic of the detachment that involves members of the subalterns. In such observation, colonialism and anti-colonial nationalism are deleted conceptually as well as historically from their connection with capitalism (Sivaramakrishnan 394). Colonization incorporates metropolitan society and its colonies while homogenizing the colonies and turning them into nations. When capitalism is disregarded in studies that involve colonialism as well as nationalism, the people mainly consider nationals with subjectivities are separated from other elements of modern issues.
Historical anthropologists emphasized more rigidly in material culture processed which as acculturation, artifact patterning and the like. The politely endowed space recalls what David Harvey terms the relation space in recent book Space of Global Capitalism, which along with the absolute space and relative space he formulates through his observation that capital involves colonialism and imperialism which are the culmination of capitalism's impetus. Late capitalism, in the era of post-colonialism, has its history specific logic and the mode of operation that involves historical subjective
Works Cited
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man. Vintage, 2010.
Ochs, Elinor, and Carolyn Taylor. The “father knows best” dynamic in dinnertime narratives. na, 2001.
Sivaramakrishnan, Kalyanakrishnan. "Situating the subaltern: History and anthropology in the subaltern studies project." Journal of Historical Sociology8.4 (1995): 395-429.
