Article: Invisible Man and African American radicalism in World War II.

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man bears a complex, ambiguous, and ultimately extraordinarily rich relation to the milieu that gave it birth, African American social radicalism in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Rather than simply providing background for a shift toward a more individualistic, artistic, or private life stance, Invisible Man's relation to the radicalism of its author's youth is the source of its definition of an alternative basis for African American social struggle after the Brotherhood experience, its continuing (if muted) affirmation of possibilities for social reform, and its forecast of the actual content of civil rights actions in the decades after its ...

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