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Ralph Ellison
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
Ralph Ellison
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
• Born in Oklahoma in 1914
• Attended the Tuskeegee Institute on a state scholarship
• Studied music in college; played the trumpet
• Moved to New York City in 1936, where he met novelist Richard Wright
• Began writing Invisible Man in 1945 (it was published in 1952)
Ellison’s Early Life
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
“[O]ur life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy’s country . . . Live with your head in the lion’s mouth. I want you to overcome ’em with yesses, undermine ’em with grins, agree ’em to death and destruction, let ’em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.”
Invisible Man
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
Invisible Man
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
Invisible Man
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
“Brothers and sisters, my text this morning is the ‘Blackness of Blackness.’ ” And a congregation of voices answered: “That blackness is most black, brother, most black . . .”
Invisible Man
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
“What did I doTo be so black,And blue?”
Invisible Man
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
Invisible Man
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
“Everyone fought hysterically. It was complete anarchy. Everybody fought everybody else. No group fought together for long. Two, three, four, fought one, then turned to fight each other, were themselves attacked.”
Invisible Man
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
Invisible Man
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition | Copyright © 2012 W.W. Norton & Company
Invisible Man
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Ralph Ellison