Photo Credit: Robert Mapplethorpe  "Masculinity" Moore, E. Al-Tariq. “Masculinity.” Ralph Ellison In Context, Cambridge UP, Cambridge, UK, 2021, pp. 147–156. Scholarship on Invisible Man has long acknowledged the importance of putting Ralph Ellison’s letters, speeches, and essays in conversation with the novel in order to fully understand its politics on race, gender, and sexuality.  These constructs … Continue reading MASCULINITY →