Framed by contemporary trauma theory, this thesis examines configurations of identity in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man by applying the model of a palimpsest to probe the narrator’s experience of trauma and its multiple repercussions on his life. In its ap
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Thesis (M.A.)--American University of Beirut, Department of English, 2012.;"Advisor : Dr. Sirène Harb, Associate Professor, Department of English--Members of Committee : Dr. John Pedro Schwartz, Assistant Professor, Department of English Dr. Alexander Ha
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-149)
