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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 125–151.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Sage Gerson Abstract In a moment of electrified literary worldmaking, the unnamed protagonist of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man steals electricity to power the 1,369 lightbulbs and radio phonography in his subterranean refuge. Narratively and materially, electricity theft diagnoses the uneven access...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 31–50.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of the Artist as a Young Man , Henry Roth's Call It Sleep , Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man , and centrally, Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco all connect with one another through a preoccupation with electricity as an akasic medium for the creation of urban imagined communities. The essay further deals with public...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Idea of Race . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Bois Du W . E. B. 1903 . Souls of Black Folk . Chicago : McClurg . Ellison Ralph . 1952 . Invisible Man . New York : Random House . Foucault Michel . 1986 . “ Of Other Spaces .” Diacritics 16 , no. 1...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 1–16.
Published: 01 December 2022
... than in the case of energy infrastructure and the churning fossil capitalism it fuels, around which the last two essays are clustered. These essays might also be said to take up more directly readings of infrastructure . Sage Gerson's “Siphoning and Sabotage: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and US...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., Times Square Blue . New York : New York University Press , 1999 . Ellison Ralph . Invisible Man . 1952 . New York : Vintage International , 1995 . Evershed Megan . “ How an Upper West Side Hotel Came to Embody the City's Failure on Homelessness .” New Republic , March 13...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 65–91.
Published: 01 June 2002
... what was right before his eyes. I know for a fact that he read Ralph
Ellison’s Invisible Man, for we discussed it during a late-night jaunt to
Ship’s coffeehouse. It never occurred to either of us to think of Ellison’s
novel as an example of black science fiction. I am sure, because he...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
... scene of power and creation: the subterranean light installation that bookends Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man (1952). Viewing himself as part of “the great American tradition of tinkers,” which include Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin, Ellison's protagonist famously gives life to “1,369” light...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 251–274.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., she affiliates herself with something the shadowy realm of
noncitizen often deeply evokes: a language of blackness. In an inquiry into
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Spillers argues: “By revising and correct-
266 Michael Cobb...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 37–59.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and Henry, “Space, Performance, and Everyday Security.” 63. See also Lutz, “Bases, Empire, and Global Response.” 64. Here I am indebted to McKittrick's discussion of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man . See McKittrick, Demonic Grounds . 65. It is estimated that AMISOM fatalities...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2015
...
about the idea of a black intramural — a term I borrow most explicitly from
Hortense Spillers, a concept Elizabeth Alexander talks about in terms
of interiority, and an idea Ralph Ellison writes about quite eloquently in
several of his essays3...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2019
... : Duke University Press , 2012 . Chow Rey . The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism . New York : Columbia University Press , 2002 . Ellison Ralph . Invisible Man . New York : New American Library , 1952 . Fanon Frantz . Black Skin, White Masks . New York...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 1–13.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., to a degree that supersedes the black-communism
encounter. I am thinking here not just of fictional works, including Ralph Elli-
son’s Invisible Man (1952) and Richard Wright’s The Outsider (1953), but also of
statements such as George Padmore, “Communism and Black...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 67–107.
Published: 01 June 2019
... Separability.” I should also say that the point I’m trying to make here is in keeping with Michael Germana’s superb reading of Ralph Ellison’s oeuvre in Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist . 8 I cannot help but hear and want to complicate what Callois is detailing here, and by extension Bataille...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 97–113.
Published: 01 June 2002
... partly in tribute to Terry
for raising the issue of race in sci-fi fandom. Partly it was a sense of irony,
too, a wry awareness that the first acknowledged black fan in the commu-
nity was a true invisible man, more à la Ralph Ellison than H...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 85–112.
Published: 01 June 2010
... the nameless narrator of Ellison’s Invisible Man
confronted the subversive sight of three young and extravagantly dressed
blacks, his reaction was one of fascination not of fear. These youths were
not simply grotesque dandies parading in the city’s secret underworld, they
were ‘the stewards...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 35–56.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Anne Anlin Cheng, “Fantasy’s
Repulsion and Investment: David Henry Hwang and Ralph Ellison,” in The Mel-
ancholy of Race (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 103–38.
11. Like the black male soldiers who perform a violence of their own...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 51–84.
Published: 01 March 2019
...” and “a warning to my country” in his interview with Studs Terkel in July 1961, when the book was published. 85 Asked why he chose that title, Baldwin says (gesturing to Ralph Ellison): “You’re invisible—what white people see when they look at you . . . is what white people have invested you with. . . . You...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 37–66.
Published: 01 June 2004
... in Research and Technology Transfer, proceedings of the
president’s retreat, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997, 20). On the other
side, Ralph Nader testified before Congress in 1984 that easier corporate access...
