Race Invisible Man

Many authors have tackled this theme of race among them there is Ralph Ellison whose book Invisible Man; published in 1952, goes around the conflict between Self and Other. Ralph Ellison; as a black author, tried to reverse the traditional hierarchy between black and white but sustained the original binary opposition. By doing a close reading of the novel focusing on several illustrations where the use of electricity is a sign of racial repression and social invisibility, as well as a way of refusing Otherness. Showing glimpses into the events of the novel presents the reader an image of the blacks’ circumstances in a racist American society, along with displaying the reasons that othered the protagonist, and caused him to be
invisible.