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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