On The Cultural Identity Of The Invisible Man From The Perspective Of Local Knowledge

The Invisible Man is a novel written by Ralph Ellison,an African American writer.It shows the reality of African Americans and reflects Ellison’s reflection on cultural identity.This thesis starts from the perspective of local knowledge,and focuses on the author’s thinking on cultural identity as reflected in local cognition,local art,and local context.The thesis is divided into three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction mainly introduces the research status of Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man at home and abroad,and explains the research methods and significance of this thesis.The body of the thesis is divided into four parts.The first part summarizes the theoretical research on local knowledge and cultural identity,introduces Ellison’s literary creation,discusses Ellison’s identity consciousness in literary creation and its reasons,and explores the local writing of The Invisible Man.The second part discusses the pursuit of African American cultural identity from the perspective of local cognition,and analyzes it from three aspects: southern experience,the stories of African Americans in New York and the creation of imagination space.The third part discusses the shaping of the African-American black cultural identity from the perspective of local art.It mainly expands from two aspects,one is the tar children and rabbit brothers in black folk tales,and the other is the blues and ballads in black music.From these two aspects,it analyzes the fusion and rewriting of black cultural traditions in the United States and the reasons behind it,and discusses the significance of black cultural traditions to the shaping of African-American black cultural identity.The fourth part discusses the construction of African-American black cultural identity from the local context,and discusses the living environment and religious environment of AfricanAmerican blacks respectively.The African-American blacks went from escaping from the South to thinking about the South,and controlled from the ideological point of view to gather strength in religion,exploring Ellison’s thinking on the construction of African-American black cultural identity.The concluding part briefly summarizes the content of the thesis,from the reflection of locality in other aspects in the novel.It further explains the value of studying The Invisible Man from the perspective of "local knowledge" for exploring Ellison’s cultural identity...