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The novel’s special quality is its deft combination of existential inquiry into identity as such-what it means to be socially or racially invisible-with a more sociopolitical allegory of the history of the African-American experience in America. The invisibility of Ellison’s protagonist is about the invisibility of identity-above all, what it means to be a black man-and its various masks, confronting both personal experience and the force of social illusions.

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Far from the tree robin benway sparknotes