| dc.contributor | 文山評論：文學與文化 | - |
| dc.creator (作者) | Dennen, David | - |
| dc.date (日期) | 2024-06 | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 10-Jul-2024 14:50:23 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.available | 10-Jul-2024 14:50:23 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.issued (上傳時間) | 10-Jul-2024 14:50:23 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.identifier.uri (URI) | https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/152301 | - |
| dc.description.abstract (摘要) | Dreams are a central feature of the extended realism of Ralph Ellison’s second novel, some drafts of which have been published as Three Days Before the Shooting . . . . In this novel, dreams help Ellison’s characters realize or present truths that cannot be presented in the language of straightforward realism. In a quasi-Freudian manner, Ellison’s dream narrations reveal his characters’ and novels’ most fundamental preoccupations. In this article I analyze part of a dream sequence from Book I of Three Days. This dream, had by a white liberal character, is centered on the figure of an iron groom (or hitching-post boy) who cannot be removed from the doorway to a house. I analyze the construction and function of this dream figure and narrative through the lens of (1) Ellison’s ritualist social criticism, (2) his extended-realist, tragicomic, and syncretic aesthetics, and (3) his allusive and narrative poiesis. The iron groom is constructed as a stereotype of blackness, linked to the major black characters of the novel and to figures in Ellison’s first novel. The groom-as-stereotype is subverted through verbal “signifying” and through the development of a tragicomic narrative rhythm. The dream functions to excavate the dreamer’s (and possibly the reader’s) “self-concealed racism” and to point the way toward what Ellison has called “the mystery of our unity-within-diversity.” | - |
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| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
| dc.relation (關聯) | 文山評論：文學與文化, 17(2), 1-40 | - |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | Ralph Ellison; Three Days Before the Shooting . . .; symbols; dreams; race; stereotypes; tragicomedy; extended realism | - |
| dc.title (題名) | The Dream of the Iron Groom: The Construction and Function of a Symbol in Ralph Ellison’s Unfinished Novel | - |
| dc.type (資料類型) | article | - |
| dc.identifier.doi (DOI) | 10.30395/WSR.202406_17(2).0003 | - |
| dc.doi.uri (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.202406_17(2).0003 | - |
