LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 11 November 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Survival of Blacks A Study of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

Anu Sheokand, M.A., M.Phil. (English)

Ralph Waldo Ellison

Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994), a celebrated black American novelist, portrays the travails of survival both of self and society. He was not a prolific writer but his only novel Invisible Man that appeared in 1952 has immortalized him. Invisible Man which won the National Book Award in 1952, is acclaimed by many critics as one of the best American novels which is concerned with the identity and humanity of a black individual.

Invisible Man – An American Classic

This novel has been heralded from the beginning as an American classic and polled as the most distinguished book in a Book-Week poll for the period of twenty years (Hassan, Contemporary 2). It has won many awards and accolades for the writer and has given him the distinction of being among “the most decorated of American writers” (Ellison, Going 45). The book has successfully presented the socio-cultural conditions in the form of a struggle of its nameless protagonist and this namelessness if metaphorically interpreted, itself raises the issue of identity and survival.

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Anu Sheokand, M.A., M.Phil.
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Department of English
Chaudhary Devi Lal University
Sirsa 125055
Haryana
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