Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is a feverishly paced, lyrical portrait of an unnamed African American man in the 1930’s.  Hauntingly beautiful and raw, this book changed how Americans think about race.  Immediately popular and the winner of the National Book Award in 1953, Ralph Ellison’s classic does not fit neatly in any literature genre (is it satire?  Is it fiction?  Is it historical fiction?).  We sit down with two professors from Ellison’s alma mater, Tuskegee University, Dr. Zanice Bond and Dr. Caroline Gebhard to discuss Ellison’s legacy, and the legacy of his most famous work.  Join us.

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Books mentioned in this week's episode:

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison edited by John F. Callahan

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Post Bellem, Pre Harlem: African American Literature and Culture
1877-1919 by Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard

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