New Essays on Invisible Man

Book Overview

Published less than fifty years ago, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man shares with older classic works the odd quality of seeming to have been in place much longer. It is a novel that encompasses much of the American scene and character: though told by a single Afro-American voice and set in the contemporary South and then in modern New York City, its references are to the First World War, to Reconstruction, to the Civil War and slavery, to the founding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521313694
• ISBN13: 9780521313698
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"