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Invisible Man

Cultural

(1952) A novel by African-American author Ralph Ellison. Set in the United States in the 1930s, it depicts a black man's struggle for identity. It won a National Book Award in 1953.

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It would be the Invisible Man bit, and everybody laughed.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025

Actor Claude Rains, star of The Invisible Man, lost 90 percent of the vision in his right eye and received permanent vocal-cord damage in a gas attack.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2024

Her work, The Invisible Man Series, 2015, explores the tradition of mask-wearing among the Ogoni, her ancestral ethnic group in the Niger Delta of Nigeria.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2023

There are interesting parallels to Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" throughout the album.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2022

I saw that he was holding a copy of The Invisible Man.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

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