started reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Now I have one radio-phonograph; I plan to have five.

he just like me, fr.

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Been reading Invisible Man

"I felt as though I'd been watching a bad comedy. Only it was real and I was living it and it was the only historically meaningful life that I could live. If I left it, I'd be nowhere. As dead and meaningless as Clifton."

#literature #quote #ralphellison

Today in Labor History April 16, 1994: Ralph Ellison died on this day. Ellison was a member of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his book, The Invisible Man. He was friends with Langston Hughes and Richard Wright. He became active in the Communist Party, as did many of his peers. But he became disillusioned with them during World War II when he felt they became reformist. He wrote The Invisible Man during this era (published in 1952), in part, as a response their betrayal. But the book also looks at the relationship between black identity and Marxism, the reformism of Booker T. Washington, and issues of individuality and personal identity.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #ralphellison #Harlem #marxism #racism #communism #fiction #literature #books #author #writer #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: "𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝑼𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒚" -

What do we mean by uncertainty? And why do we want to look for it?

This episode, we scour from jazz music to Rubik's Cubes, and from Gatsby to Ellison, from Obama to Carroll, to make sense of it. And there's nothing less than world transformation at stake.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/reading-and-living-in-uncertainty/

#literarynomads #podcast #literature #reading #meaning #barackobama #ralphellison #fscottfitzgerald #thegreatgatsby

Some of my must-read books for #BlackHistoryMonth.

#PercivalEverett: JAMES and The Trees
#JasonMott: Hell of a Book
#ToniMorrison: Beloved
#MauriceCarlosRuffin: We Cast a Shadow
#SolomonNorthup: 12 Years A Slave
#HarrietJacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
#RalphEllison: Invisible Man
#DanzySenna: Colored Television

#LitStudies
#Books

Some of my must-read books for #BlackHistoryMonth.

#PercivalEverett: JAMES and The Trees
#JasonMott: Hell of a Book
#ToniMorrison: Beloved
#MauriceCarlosRuffin: We Cast a Shadow
#SolomonNorthup: 12 Years A Slave
#HarrietJacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
#RalphEllison: Invisible Man
#DanzySenna: Colored Television

#LitStudies
#Books

The Invisible Freshman

#BookASongOrPoem #HashTagGames #TheInvisibleMan #RalphEllison #TheFreshmen #TheVervePipe @hashtaggames

"Hoje em dia, o meu mundo é feito de infinitas possibilidades. Que frase! Ainda assim, é uma boa frase e uma boa atitude perante a vida; o ser humano não devia aceitar outra; isso, ao menos, aprendi debaixo da terra. Até que um grupo consiga colocar o mundo numa camisa de forças, essa definição é possível e viável."
— Ralph Ellison, Homem Invisível

#RalphEllison publicou apenas um romance. Um chegou.