A Professor's Life

Author: graykane

Date: January 24, 2005

by graykane
1-24-05
Ellison's parents named him "Ralph Waldo" after Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the great American transcendentalists.
Now, can anybody tell me who Ralph Waldo Ellison is? Find Waldo in the literary canon. Where's Waldo?
He wrote The Invisible Man.
Yeah yeah yeah, good good good. And can you find a relationship between The Invisible Man and Transcendentalism?
A borrowed white man's name ain't never had that much control over a black man's thoughts.