SOURCE: "The Politics of Ellison's Booker: Invisible Man as Symbolic History," in Chicago Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1967, pp. 5-26.
In the following essay, Kostelanetz contends that the narrator of Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man represents "in symbolic form the overall historical experience of the most politically active element" of African Americans.
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