Invisible people

Author: Ellison
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Publication Date: 2000-06-01
Features: Invisible Man is Ellison's first major novel, first published in 1952 and hailed as "a groundbreaking novel, almost an epic of modern American life." It won the American National Book Award in 1953 and has been republished for decades since then, even topping the bestseller list for 16 consecutive weeks in 1982. He passed away in 1994. The protagonist of Invisible Man is a young Black man who strives to gain recognition and wants to "make himself seen." He has been a "honest Black man," trying to find his place in the American industry and becoming a useful cog in the machine; he has also joined the "Brotherhood," attaching himself to left-wing politics—every attempt he has made seems to place a Black man in a visible position in American life, but none of these things have allowed him to enter the ideal spiritual civilization he seeks, so he now prefers to be an underground person.