Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison and John Callahan
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Invisible Man is the story of a young black man from the South who does not fully understand racism in the world. Filled with hope about his future, he goes to college, but gets expelled for showing one of the white benefactors the real and seamy side of black existence. He moves to Harlem and becomes an orator for the Communist party, known as the Brotherhood. In his position, he is both threatened and praised, swept up in a world he does not fully understand. As he works for the organization, he encounters many people and situations that slowly force him to face the truth about racism and his own lack of identity. As racial tensions in Harlem continue to build, he gets caught up in a riot that drives him to a manhole. In the darkness and solitude of the manhole, he begins to understand himself - his invisibility and his identity. He decides to write his story down (the body of the novel) and when he is finished, he vows to enter the world again.
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Fiction, African American men, African Americans, Race relations, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=1953, award:national_book_award=fiction, open_syllabus_project, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Social conditions, Mentally ill, Psychological fiction, Scientists, African American men -- Fiction, Classics, Urban Life, Modern Literature, African American, Racism, American fiction (fictional works by one author), African americans, fiction, Children's fiction, New York Times reviewed, Race Relations, American Fiction (Fictional Works By One Author); African Americans_Fiction;, Black or African American, Fiction, historical, United states, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Romans, nouvelles, Conditions socialesPlaces
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Invisible Man
1995, Vintage International
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in English
- 2nd Vintage International ed.
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Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1952.
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