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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison's first novel, and the only one published during his lifetime. It was first published by the British magazine Horizon in 1947, and addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early 20th century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
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The struggle of an unnamed African American man in the mid-20th century. Canadian artist Jeff Wall's painstakingly staged photograph is inspired by the prologue, where the narrator's basement room is lit by 1,369 light bulbs powered by illegally siphoned electricity: "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
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