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Name and Power Relation to African-American Identity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

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This study aims to analyze how names are related to African-American Identity and the working of power in influencing their identity in the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. This study uses gualitative descriptive methods and Charles Sander Peirce's semiotic theory in names to find the relation between the identity of African-Americans and their names. Then it uses Social Identity and Power Relation theories to analyze how the African-Americans construct their identity. The result of the study shows that most names used by African-American characters are not the main factor in constructing their identity, the names used by African-Americans after the civil war were mostly European origin and also similar to the names of white people in order to avoid negative stigma about race and discrimination. However, it did not set them free from discrimination. Furthermore, the key aspects in constructing identity are through social categorization and social comparison where the effect of power relations are the main factors that caused limitations in increasing positive values towards AfricanAmerican identity. This study also indicates how the working of power constructs discursive truths that place black people in the second class-society, subservient to White people.

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BSI 2022 IMA n

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Makassar : FAH. Adab & Humaniora UIN ALauddin., 2022

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x, 74 hlm.: 23 cm.

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English

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BSI 2022

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Identity
Names
African-American
power relation

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