Invisible Man

Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

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Ellison's 1952 novel follows an unnamed Black narrator through a series of disillusionments as he discovers that being invisible in America is not a metaphor but a lived condition. Won the National Book Award.

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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man was re-read by Holiday and described as "profoundly impacting." It informs his chapter on confronting the legacy of racial divisions in America.

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