P and Invisible Man

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https://www.slpl.org/blogs/post/ralph-ellison-invisible-man-comes-to-light/

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 2:50 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Plist fave reader-critic Tony Tanner has a
>  terrific long essay on Ellison's *Invisible Man*, which I
> am rereading for a course I am teaching on Roth (*The Human Stain* which is
> indebted to IM).
>
> In Tanner's what might I call the sometimes metaphysical reach of his
> criticism, he observes this.
> You may recall the elaborate light arrangement for his room , 13 thousand
> some bulbs run off a stolen line from the power
> company that the invisible man has set up proudly and elaborates on.
>
> He, Tanner, finds the deep genius of this scene and metaphor to be to show
> the power connection that even an
> invisible man needs to exist in the US. Power, energy from the system, the
> grid (but he doesn't use that term) and
>
> it made me think of Byron in GR. Anyone, anyone?
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