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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 63, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhat does it mean to be down a hole? This is one question Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man makes us ask when we finish the novel's epilogue, for there the unnamed narrator indicates his plan to emerge from the underground...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed1. "It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters that whoever can speak can sing"--or so Emerson opens his essay "Eloquence," included in the 1870 volume Society and Solitude. As Emerson describes it near the end...
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From:Callaloo (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRalph Ellison's novel 'Invisible Man' is a masterpiece in American literature because it chronicles the American experience from a black perspective. Its continuous publication since 1952, however, is also due to...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 63, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRalph Ellison's depiction of the Communist Party in Invisible Man has often been criticized as unfair or formulaic. This article, however, argues that Ellison's depiction of the Communist Party can be read productively...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPrologue In several interviews, Ralph Ellison joins many of his readers in resolving Invisible Man into a declaration of coherent identity. Effectively interpreting Invisible Man as a modem Bildungsroman, Ellison...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 138, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen Ralph Ellison said that "the joke [is] at the center of the American identity," he also meant that the joker is at the center of American life. In a rapidly changing liberal society, with fluctuating standards and...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 46, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedIn seven sealed letters that the Invisible Man carries from college to New York City, their author (and the college's president), Dr. Bledsoe, marks him as a fallen man-"one for whom we held great expectations ... gone...
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From:Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedConsidering "invisibility" as both subject matter and aestheticizing mode of experience, this essay uses the case studies of two American novels--Teju Cole's Open City and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man--to explore how a...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPerhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. And by this I mean the word in all its complex formulations, ... the word with all its subtle power to suggest and foreshadow...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRalph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is a tale of incest, which contains several allusions to the religious myth of the Fall. This myth informs the cultural history of African Americans. The narrator's description is...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 51, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRevisit with me for a spell an important moment in the early pages of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. It comes near the end of the Prologue, and it opens the way for what is to come as it previews the role the vernacular...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 48, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedEven before he handed the final typescript of Invisible Man to his publisher, Ralph Ellison wrote to Albert Murray that he was "trying to get started on the next novel. (I probably have enough stuff left from the other...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRalph Ellison's Invisible Man bears a complex, ambiguous, and ultimately extraordinarily rich relation to the milieu that gave it birth, African American social radicalism in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Rather than...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 10, Issue 1)Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison, 1947 On last summer's Modern Library list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century, the first two by black authors were Invisible Man (1947) by Ralph...
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From:Callaloo (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRalph Ellison's book, 'Invisible Man,' was a breakthrough in that it brought African-American literature and black consciousness into the mainstream of American society. The novel, which continues to be in print since...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe element of carnival-masquerade offers a wide lens through which to view black-white race relations by mirroring and magnifying racial practices in the United States. Perhaps no work of African American literature...
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From:Kola (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewedfeaturing Ralph Ellison No one sees this, no but he is a part of this landscape too. Right here. Here, right in front of your long nose. Not impressed? It's no trick. Hold out your hand and move it back and forth in...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Chaos was the law of Nature; Order was the Dream of Man." The Education of Henry Adams. In his article, "Tradition and Innovation: Evolving Paradigms in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and Invisible Man,"...
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From:Callaloo (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAfrican-American Ralph Walso Ellison will be sorely missed by the literary world which saw the emergence of black consciousness after the publication of his novel 'Invisible Man.' The novel stirs because people identify...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn Invisible Man (1952), Ralph Ellison presents an unnamed narrator who cannot be seen. General readers and critics of the novel have understood this narrator to have been rendered invisible by the impositions of a...