Historicité des regards

In fact, Americans of African descent might be the alienated people in this century. For if America represents for others an emancipation from the past, it means for black Americans an abduction from the past, into first the apocalypse of chattel slavery and then the more subtle horrors of racism, segregation, and “invisibility,” creating the especially acute psychic tensions that we see in Ellison’s novel.

—Robert W. Rudnicki, Percyscapes


idem décalage qui existe entre les grandes épopées et les persos politiques qui en étaient les commanditaires.