Essay from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1.0, University of Kent (School of English), course: American Modernisms, language: English, abstract: In an attempt to place Ralph Waldo Ellison’s novel Invisible Man within a
Modernist framework, Berndt Ostendorf writes,
‘Ellison … is a “Spätling,” a latecomer to Modernism. … Ellison’s Modernism
… is not one of crisis ...