Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

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1913 Ellison born in Oklahoma City

1916 Father died, Mother house

keeper

Ellison played trumpet, got a scholarship to Tuskegee

Moved to Harlem (NYC)

1937-45 Non fiction and short stories

1938-42 Federal Writers Project – interviews 'Negroes' inn New York

1943 Merchant Marine

1945 Rosenwald fellowship

IM: originally about a black man shot down and in Nazi prisoner of war camp

first chapter 1947 in magazine

book 1publisjed 1952 wide acclaim – National Book Award

1958 Ellison taught at Bard College

Themes:

Visibility/Invisibility

Race

Communism

Black nationalism

Dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81nDMWyElMg (Einbetten)