Invisible man / Ralph Ellison.
Series: Penguin classicsPublisher: London : Penguin, 2001Edition: New [ed.] / with an introduction by John CallahanDescription: xli, 581p. ; 20 cm001: 43263ISBN: 9780141184425 (pbk.) :Subject(s): African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964 -- FictionGenre/Form: General.DDC classification: 823 ELL LOC classification: PS3555.L625 | I5 2001Summary: The invisible man is the unnamed narrator of this impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, he retreats to an underground cell.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual. As John Callahan says, 'In an extraordinary imaginative leap, he hit upon a single word for the different yet shared condition of African Americans, Americans, and, for that matter, the human individual in the twentieth century and beyond.'
This edition includes Ralph Ellison's introduction to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Invisible Man , a fascinating account of the novel's seven-year gestation.
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1952; London: Gollancz, 1953.
The invisible man is the unnamed narrator of this impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, he retreats to an underground cell.
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Library Journal Review
This audio is a thoughtful, wonderful version of one of the best works of American fiction of the 20th century. Peter Francis James expresses every nuance of the Northern and Southern black, white, and Caribbean dialects Ellison employed, reading with lyrical feeling and passion throughout this well-produced recording. The experiences of the unnamed protagonist in the rural South and in post-World War II Harlem serve as allegories for maturing intellectual, emotional, and moral sensitivities in us all, black or white, rich or poor, 1950s or 1990s. Though blessed with individual gifts, perhaps even with social privilege, we become, like the protagonist, a construct of others' prejudices, expectations, and stereotypesDwe become ambiguous to self, invisible to our own society. The society, attitudes, and institutions of the 1950s play large roles in shaping the invisible hero. It seems a shame that not much has changed: parallel influences seem to have kept us from understanding very much more as a society now than we knew then. Highly recommended for adult fiction collections.DCliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly Review
These three volumes have been redesigned and reissued to commemorate the first anniversary of Ellison's death. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reservedBooklist Review
This deeply disturbing and resonant novel was critically well received, a winner of the National Book Award. It concerns a southern black man at sea in a northern setting--"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."There are no comments on this title.