Ralph Ellison's Invisible ManHarold Bloom Presents a collection of interpretations of Ralph Ellison's novel, "Invisible man." |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Reading Ralph Ellison Synthesizing the CP and NAACP | 7 |
Reinventing Ralph Ellison | 25 |
Eloquence and Invisible Man | 31 |
Invisible Man and African American Radicalism in World War II | 55 |
The Blackness of Blackness | 85 |
A CounterSign in the Punch Line | 111 |
A Friendship That Has Meant So Much | 127 |
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