Mythic reinscriptions in W.E.B. Du Bois's The souls of Black folk, James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-coloured man, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
Those mythic structures which have significantly defined and supported the idea of "America" have consistently ignored the contribution, or even the very existence of the American black population. Meaningful participation in the promise of these myths, loosely bound up in the notion of Th...