A critic once said that an important measure of great literature is that it produces in the reader a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude, two effects that are seemingly contradictory but act...
”Battle Royal” is a chapter in “Invisible Man”, a novel by Ralph Ellison. In his lifetime, “Invisible Man” is Ellison’s sole novel but it won him the National Book Award in 1953. What ma...
A visage of violence, uprising, gullibility, and realization – Ralph Ellison’s short story “Battle Royal” depicts a different story that embroils the philosophical depths behind concepts of ra...