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    Questions: His Invisible Man Is Not An Ectoplasm Out of Edgar

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    This document contains 4 questions about analyzing and interpreting various literary works: 1. It asks about the symbolism of "generations" and numbers in a poem by Kwock-Kim and what birthing metaphors are used. 2. It questions the use of letters to represent Africa's problems and cultures in Walter Abish's experimental work. 3. It inquires why Ellison mentions his invisible man is not an ectoplasm and calls himself an "irresponsible bastard", possibly distancing from literary tradition. 4. It poses questions about the presumptions of a story narrated by the Statue of Liberty and how the statue can claim to never be born or die.

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    This document contains 4 questions about analyzing and interpreting various literary works: 1. It asks about the symbolism of "generations" and numbers in a poem by Kwock-Kim and what birthing metaphors are used. 2. It questions the use of letters to represent Africa's problems and cultures in Walter Abish's experimental work. 3. It inquires why Ellison mentions his invisible man is not an ectoplasm and calls himself an "irresponsible bastard", possibly distancing from literary tradition. 4. It poses questions about the presumptions of a story narrated by the Statue of Liberty and how the statue can claim to never be born or die.

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    This document contains 4 questions about analyzing and interpreting various literary works: 1. It asks about the symbolism of "generations" and numbers in a poem by Kwock-Kim and what birthing metaphors are used. 2. It questions the use of letters to represent Africa's problems and cultures in Walter Abish's experimental work. 3. It inquires why Ellison mentions his invisible man is not an ectoplasm and calls himself an "irresponsible bastard", possibly distancing from literary tradition. 4. It poses questions about the presumptions of a story narrated by the Statue of Liberty and how the statue can claim to never be born or die.

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    Questions: His Invisible Man Is Not An Ectoplasm Out of Edgar

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    Questions

    1. The "generation" in question in Kwock-Kim's poem doesn't


    seem to be a matter of a historical or biological time-
    frame--what might the author be referring to here? Why
    might this piece be broken into numbered sections? What
    kind of symbolism might numbers like "0" and "1"
    represent? What other metaphors of birthing does the poet
    use? 

    2. Why might Walter Abish choose to represent Africa in


    such an odd way in this experimental piece of writing?
    Why use patterns of words beginning with A and B and C
    to represent some of this continent's political problems and
    cultural images? Can we imagine some of the ways other
    letters that appear later in the alphabet might "behave" later
    in the book this passage is taken from? 

    3. Why does Ellison feel the need to quickly tell us


    that his  Invisible Man is not an ectoplasm out of Edgar
    Allen Poe? Why does Ellison’s character tell us he is an
    “irresponsible bastard”? Is he cutting himself from the
    American literary tradition? Why the lack of a definite
    article here, unlike HG Wells’ The Invisible Man? Why
    might “invisible” sound so close to “invincible”? Because
    “you can’t hit what you can’t see”? 

    4.  In regards to Giannina Braschi’s “Under the Skirt of


    Liberty,” what is presumptuous about a short story phrased
    as a monologue that begins “I am the Statue of Liberty”?
    Can any one person indeed embody this figure? In what
    literal way is this Statue’s torch a “spotlight over people’s
    heads”? Does this underscore the American emphasis on
    Individuality? How can the Statue make the seemingly
    illogical claim “I was never born. I will never die”? Don’t
    all things have beginnings and endings?

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