 | Ludwig - 1962 - 49 sidor
...which will end invisibility: "I am an invisible man . . . simply because people refuse to see me. . . . When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed, everything and anything except me. . . . You ache with the need to convince... | |
 | Louis P. Masur - 1999 - 562 sidor
...refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass....my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed, everything and anything except me. - RALPH ELLISON, Invisible Man ELLISON'S... | |
 | Hanes Walton - 1985 - 392 sidor
...refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard distorting glass....approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or judgments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me. '8 In sum, the behavioralists'... | |
 | George Wotton - 1985 - 260 sidor
...societies who, as Ralph Ellison's invisible man says, are invisible 'because people refuse to see me — When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed, everything and anything except me.'19 Class vision has just this quality of... | |
 | William Darby - 1987 - 412 sidor
...refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass....my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed, everything and anything except me.28 In his adventures Ellison's spokesman... | |
 | Robert B. Stepto - 1991 - 252 sidor
...imposing fictions that surface in the tale as items in the hero's briefcase are generally defined — "When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed, everything and anything except me." By the end of the frame those fictive "certainties"... | |
 | Kristin Bumiller - 1992 - 182 sidor
...refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass....my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed, everything and anything except me.31 If we understand legal authority to be... | |
 | Herbert R. Coursen - 1993 - 212 sidor
...p. 180) Ralph Ellison called the black man "The Invisible Man, " because, as Ellison says, "I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass....imaginations — indeed everything and anything except me" (Ellison, p. 1). As recently as 12 October 1990, Carl T. Rowan described the racist agenda of David... | |
 | Marleen S. Barr - 1993 - 252 sidor
...refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you sometimes see in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass....my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed, everything and anything except me. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man The two... | |
 | Catherine Marshall, Politics of Education Association - 1993 - 240 sidor
...is not unlike that of Ralph Ellison's African American protagonist who laments, 'When they [whites] approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination' (Ellison 1947: 3l. The theme of student invisibility has become a popular metaphor in... | |
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings,... 
