Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man": "It Goes a Long Way Back, Some 20 Years".

Walling, William

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Publication Date: 1973

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Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man": "It Goes a Long Way Back, Some 20 Years"

Walling, William

Phylon, 34, 1, 4-16, Mar 73

Attempts both to reconcile the divergent critical views which have grown about the novel and to determine whether this critical examination can have any meaning for those readers who find the novel useless--or worse--in terms of their own experience. (JM)

Descriptors: Black Literature, Identification (Psychology), Literary Criticism, Motifs, Narration, Novels, Racial Relations, Self Concept, Twentieth Century Literature

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