Plan ralph Ellison's Biography Summary of Invisible Man

Invisible Man - Key takeaways

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  In 1953, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man was the first novel by a Black author to win the National Book Award.
  
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  The main theme of the novel is identity and how a person's identity is bestowed by social forces out of the individual's control.
  
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  Invisible Man represents a large mural of institutions such as universities, jobs, and labor organizations, and details the role race plays in how those institutions are organized.
  
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  "White is Right" is the philosophy that justified distrust of Blackness in the early 20th century and is the major point of critique for Invisible Man.
  
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  Invisible Man shows how the US culture and institutions perpetuate systemic violence.
  

1. Ralph Ellison, "The Art of Fiction: An Interview," The Paris Review, No. 8, 1955

2. Hilton Als, “In the Territory: A Look at the Life of Ralph Ellison,” The New Yorker, May 7, 2007
3. Jefferson Pinder, "Invisible Man," 2005
4. Luke D. Mahoney, “A Most Powerful Autoethnography: How Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Retold the Story of the Black American Experience for the Cultural Mainstream,” Inquiries Journal, Vol. 7 No. 10, 2015