• Ellison on Sound, Invisibility, and World-Making

  • Apr 21 2023
  • Length: 19 mins
  • Podcast

Ellison on Sound, Invisibility, and World-Making

  • Summary

  • A discussion of the Prologue to Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man, with particular interest in his treatment of Louis Armstrong's song "Black and Blue" and its resonance across the Prologue, as well as the larger relation of the song and its sonic strategies to ideas of poetry, poiesis, and world-making.

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