Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction Robert O'Meally; 2. The meaning of narration in Invisible Man Valerie Smith; 3. Frequencies of eloquence: the performance and composition of Invisible Man John F. Callahan; 4. Ralph Waldo Ellison: anthropology, modernism and jazz Berndt Ostendorf; 5. Ellison's masks and the novel of reality Thomas Schaub; 6. The conscious hero and the rites of man: Ellison's war John S. Wright; Notes; Bibliography.

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A collection of essays on Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man.

Reviews

"This superb collection of hitherto unpublished essays presents the Invisible Man in various perspectives as both a fully embodied expression of Modernism and as a unique appropriation of black experience. An introduction sets the background for five essays, each suggestive, all complementing in their approaches, all implying the reinvention of the Modern under the pressure of the black folk past." Journal of Modern Literature