By M. Cooper Harriss
ISBN-10: 1479823015
ISBN-13: 9781479823017
Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man offers an unforgettable metaphor for what it ability to be skipped over in society. whereas the time period “invisibility” has turn into shorthand for all different types of marginalization, Ellison was once essentially all for racial identity. M. Cooper Harriss argues that faith, too, is still really invisible inside discussions of race and seeks to right this via an in depth examine of Ralph Ellison’s work.
Harriss examines the non secular and theological dimensions of Ralph Ellison’s idea of race via his evocative metaphor for the adventure of blackness in the USA, and with an eye fixed to uncovering formerly unrecognized non secular dynamics in Ellison’s lifestyles and work. mixing non secular reviews and theology, race thought, and clean readings of African-American tradition, Harriss attracts on Ellison to create the idea that of an “invisible theology,” and makes use of this idea as a foundation for discussing faith and racial identification in modern American life.
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology is the 1st publication to target Ellison as a spiritual determine, and at the spiritual dynamics of his work. Harriss brings to gentle Ellison’s shut friendship with theologian and literary critic Nathan A. Scott, Jr., and areas Ellison in context with such mythical spiritual figures as Reinhold and Richard Niebuhr, Paul Tillich and Martin Luther King, Jr. He argues that historic legacies of invisible theology aid us make experience of more moderen matters like drone struggle and Clint Eastwood’s empty chair.
Rich and leading edge, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology will revolutionize the way in which we comprehend Ellison, the highbrow legacies of race, and the examine of religion.
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