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Invisible Man

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Ralph Ellison, author

Canon Rationale

A core American and African American novel, included for race, identity, invisibility, satire, modernism, music, political ideology, and postwar literary form.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 35.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Invisible Man'.
  • institutional list: National Book Foundation, 'Invisible Man'.

Audit Flags

version dependency

Completion unit: read the full novel. This record is Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, not H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man.

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