Invisible Man
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Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison’s landmark 1952 novel exploring race, identity, and invisibility in mid-20th-century America through the first-person narrative of an unnamed Black protagonist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Invisible Man canonical | 5 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptation | stage adaptations ⓘ |
| author | Ralph Ellison ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Book Award for Fiction ⓘ |
| awardReceivedYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | landmark of 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| frameDevice | narrator living underground ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
Bildungsroman ⓘ novel ⓘ political fiction ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| includedIn | modern literary canon ⓘ |
| influenced | later African-American fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
African American modernism
ⓘ
surface form:
African-American modernism
postwar American literature ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | first-person ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Brother Jack
ⓘ
A. Bledsoe ⓘ
surface form:
Dr. Bledsoe
Mary Rambo ⓘ Ras the Exhorter ⓘ Tod Clifton ⓘ |
| notableOrganizationDepicted | the Brotherhood ⓘ |
| openingScene | Battle Royal ⓘ |
| protagonist | unnamed Black narrator ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1952 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | mid-20th-century America ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
Harlem ⓘ |
| structure | nonlinear frame narrative ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
political movements in 1930s–1940s America
ⓘ
race relations in the United States ⓘ |
| symbol |
Liberty Paints
ⓘ
Sambo doll ⓘ briefcase ⓘ invisibility ⓘ light bulbs in the basement ⓘ |
| theme |
Black experience in America
ⓘ
alienation ⓘ identity ⓘ individual vs society ⓘ invisibility ⓘ power and ideology ⓘ race ⓘ racism ⓘ search for self ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Invisible Man Description of subject: Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison’s landmark 1952 novel exploring race, identity, and invisibility in mid-20th-century America through the first-person narrative of an unnamed Black protagonist.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ralph Ellison