Invisible man / by Ralph Ellison
Material type: TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: London : Penguin, 2001Description: xii, 581 pages ; 20 cmISBN: 9780141184425 (pbk)Subject(s): African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964 -- Fiction | Racism | Race relations | African Americans -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 813.54 Summary: Tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was on the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Namal Library Literature(hall 2) | 813.54 ELL-I 2001 2477 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0002477 |
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1952; London: Gollancz, 1953.
Tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was on the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual.
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