The Role of Violence and the Idea of America in Ralph Ellison's "A Party Down at the Square"
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Abstract
While Ralph Ellison's unshakable faith in the American democracy and his obvious desire to be counted among the great tradition of American (not necessarily African American) literature, have at times made him appear accommodationist to some, and even "dangerous," to use Amiri Baraka's word, to others, this view overlooks the centrality of violence in Ellison's fiction. By examining the role of violence in a key early scene of Invisible Man , but mostly in Ellison's early short story, "A Party Down at the Square," this essay argues that there is an important addition to the understanding of Ellison's writing available through an examination of the role violence plays in his work. Bien que la foi inébranlable de Ralph Ellison dans la démocratie américaine et son désir évident de s'insérer dans la longue tradition de la littérature américaine (pas nécessairement africaine-américaine) l'ont parfois fait juger comme «accommodationniste» par certains, et même «dangereux», comme l'a dit Amiri Baraka, par d'autres. Cette opinion ne tient pas compte de la centralité de la violence dans la fiction d'Ellison. Si l'on analyse le rôle de la violence dans une scène clé au début de Invisible Man , mais surtout dans les histoires courtes des premiers écrits d'Ellison, «A Party Down at the Square», le présent essai fait valoir qu'on constate une importante addition aux connaissances de l'oeuvre d'Ellison lorsqu'on examine le rôle de la violence dans cette oeuvre.
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