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Callahan, Editor  \nOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nRalph Ellison’s  \nInvisible Man  \nA C A S E B O O K  \nRecent titles in  \ncasebooks in criticism  \nVladimir Nabokov’s Lolita: A Casebook  \nEdited by Ellen Pifer  \nJames Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook Edited by Mark A. Wollaeger  \nToni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: A Casebook Edited by Jan Furman  \nChinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Casebook Edited by Isidore Okpewho  \nRichard Wright’s Black Boy (American Hunger): A Casebook Edited by William L. Andrews and Douglas Taylor  \nWilliam Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!: A Casebook Edited by Fred Hobson  \nEdith Wharton’s The House of Mirth: A Casebook Edited by Carol J. Singley  \nJames Joyce’s Ulysses: A Casebook Edited by Derek Attridge  \nJoseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: A Casebook Edited by Gene M. Moore  \n’  \nRALPH ELLISON S  \nInvisible Man  \nJ J J  \nA C A S E B O O K  \nEdited by John F. Callahan  \n1  \n1  \nOxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai  \nNairobi Sa˜o Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Copyright 􀀁 2004 by Oxford University Press, Inc.  \nPublished by Oxford University Press, Inc.  \n198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 [www.oup.com](www.oup.com)[ ](www.oup.com)Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ralph Ellison’s Invisible man : a casebook / edited by John F. Callahan.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Casebooks in criticism) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-19-514535-6; 0-19-514536-4 (pbk.)  \n1. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man. 2. African American men in literature.  \n3. African Americans in literature. I. Callahan, John F., 1940–  \nII. Series.  \nPS3555.L625I5365 2004  \n813'.54—dc21  \n2003049890  \n1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2  \nPrinted in the United States of America on acid-free paper  \nTo my daughters, Eve and Sasha, dear friends of Ralph, and of his book, and to my granddaughter, Ava Callahan Taylor.  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nCredits  \nBurke, Kenneth. “Ralph Ellison’s Trueblooded Bildungsroman.” In Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison, edited by Kimberly Benston. Washington, D.C. Howard University Press, 1987 . Reprinted by permission of the Kenneth Burke Literary Trust.  \nCallahan, John F. “Ellison’s Invisible Man.” A Bradley Lecture Series Publication, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2001 . Reprinted by permission of the author.  \nDickstein, Morris. “Ralph Ellison, Race, and American Culture.”Raritan: A Quarterly Review 18, no. 4 (Spring 1999) . Reprinted by permission of the author.  \nEllison, Ralph. Excerpts from letters to Albert Murray, from Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray. New York: Random House, 2000 . Reprinted by permission of Mrs. Fanny Ellison and the Estate of Ralph Ellison.  \nviii Credits  \nEllison, Ralph.“On Initiation Rites and Power: A Lecture at West Point,” and excerpts from “The Art of Fiction: An Interview,”“Brave Words for a Startling Occasion,”“Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke,” and “The World and the Jug.” In The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison, edited by John F. Callahan. New York: Random House, 1995 . Reprinted by permission of Mrs. Fanny Ellison and the Estate of Ralph Ellison.  \nEllison, Ralph. 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