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Ralph Ellison: An American Journey

Ralph Ellison brought onto the scene a new kind of Black protagonist

In writing "Invisible Man" the late 1940s, Ralph Ellison brought onto the scene a new kind of black protagonist, one at odds with the characters of the leading black novelist at the time, Richard Wright. If Wright’s characters were angry, uneducated, and volatile — the ...