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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

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Ralph Ellison examines the consequences of making a culture sovereign and visible, making all other cultures invisible and obscure. The writer draws with “Invisible Man” the inability to be human and individual in this climate, the confusion of identity, isolation, alienation, being the other, becoming a minority in the dominant culture. He says that “Every beginning is a last and every last is a start” with these words that are taken from the author's book. The book begins with the college years of the narrator who is not a member of a privileged family. With the privilege of being a college student, without having any privilege status like having white skin, money and power, he pays the price of this privileged status with being an ideal
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