Abstract
This paper is intended to investigate tricksterism in Ralph Waldo Ellison’s Invisible Man. Through analyzing the successful tricksters and the unsuccessful tricksters, this research concludes that tricksterism is a survival strategy in the society of white supremacy, and black people have to wear the mask and trick the white people for the cause of eliminating racial discrimination.Keywords: tricksterism; Invisible Man; survival strategy; equality
Highlights
Invisible Man is Ralph Waldo Ellison’s first novel
Through analyzing the successful tricksters and the unsuccessful tricksters, this research concludes that tricksterism is a survival strategy in the society of white supremacy, and black people have to wear the mask and trick the white people for the cause of eliminating racial discrimination
We will conduct a research on tricksterism as a survival strategy through the contrastive analysis of successful tricksters and unsuccessful tricksters in Invisible Man
Summary
Invisible Man is Ralph Waldo Ellison’s first novel. It is about an African American man whose color renders him invisible. Tricksterism “We wear the mask that grins and lies. It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes. The black people have to wear the mask to hide their emotions and to lie to the white people in order to free themselves from oppression. Tricksters are those who wear masks in order to survive difficult situations and attack their enemies, and “tricksterism can become a survival strategy through which oppressed groups or individuals may attain a certain degree of personal and political autonomy within the restrictions of an oppressive dominant system” IJALEL 6(2):92-96, 2017 becomes a survival strategy for black people to liberate themselves from domination and achieve equal status in the society of white supremacy
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