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Black Nationalism was narrow and superficial, distorted African-American experience, and denied one of Ellison’s major tenets: that American culture was racially mixed, a blend of black and white. Ellison believed in a form of multiculturalism that he felt Black Nationalism denied. —diversity is the word,” Ellison wrote in Invisible Man. “Let man keep his many parts and you’ll have no tyrant states. . America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. ” He also felt strongly that the cultural reality of African Americans was centered in the United States, not Africa.

43 Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man Ellison did not share these views. Although he collected African art, he had little interest in the idea of blacks in America having any important cultural or psychological link with Africans. He was opposed to art serving the aims of a political movement, although he did not deny that art possessed a political dimension. He had THIS 2003 SCULPTURE BY ELIZABETH CATLETT, ERECTED IN RIVERSIDE PARK, NEW YORK CITY, CONSISTS OF A BRONZE MONOLITH THROUGH WHICH THE SILHOUETTE OF A STRIDING MAN HAS BEEN CUT.

AS HIS HOME. 41 Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man Flambe” in 1973, and “Backwacking: A Plea to the Senator” in 1977—but never completed the book. It is unclear if he was simply unable to let go of the manuscript he was working on or if he could not craft a coherent story out of the massive amount that he had written over the years. A fire at his summer home in Massachusetts in 1967 is believed to have destroyed a significant part of the novel he was working on, although it is not known how much was destroyed or if the loss seriously hampered his work.

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