Author Archive | sanderstb

Micro-aggressions in Invisible Man

This novel is a complex novel that covers racism in almost every light, north and south, light and dark. In this novel however, there is a stark difference in the racism our narrator experiances in Harlem, rather than in the deep south. In Harlem he is littered with micro-aggressions. The most prominent example being in […]

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tableaux vivants in the modern age

In chapter 12 of the first book in Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth we see the portrayal of a “tableaux vivants”. The scene which this occurs appears to be as part of a social gathering, a party of sorts. It appears to be an occurrence in which a group of living people portray a socially well-known […]

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