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“Ralph Ellison and American Identity.” Studies on English Language & Literature. 36.1(2010): 143-158. Ellison takes writing novels to be a pious act and a meaningful reclamation of the details of human experience. He finds the potential for fundamental kinship with the enemy in the complexities. Ellisonian piety means responsible ownership of the entirety of one’s history. His pious posture is one of antagonistic cooperation. Jazz serves Ellison as a metaphor for democracy. True jazz is an art of individual assertion within and against the group. He doesn’t want to talk about guilt, but he wants to talk of an identification which goes beyond race. For Ellison, humanity lies in affirmative possibilities. (Changwon University)