and one essay. The four books are, The Invisible Man, already mentioned; The Real Negro: (2004), by Shelly Eversley; Black Feminist Thought (1990) by Patricia Collins, and Black Writers of America, (1997) by Richard Barksdale and Keneth Kinnamon; The essay is titled, “On the Criticism of Black American Literature” (1976) by Houston Baker Jr. These writings all echo the sentiment of invisibility experienced by the nameless narrator in Ellison’s novel. They also speak to the importance…
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