Who ain't a slave: Thomas F. Bertonneau on Ellison's IM

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 16, 2010, at 3:35 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> Much has been written about Pynchon and Malcolm X, Toni Morrison, the
> Herero, Watts...his slightly ambiguous statement in SL about Class &
> Race, Twain's Jim, African American Jazz, the New Nego, the WHite
> Negro....but Ellison, certainly the American Author Pynchon resembles
> more than any other, has not been taken up by the Pynchon Industry.
> Why not?

Excellent question, particularly in light of chapter nine's high- 
definition transmission of White Man's inhumanity to Black Man.