1. Introduction With the publication of his novel Invisible Man in 1952 Ralph Ellison certainly had his masterpiece. It tells the story of a young African American in search for his own identity by struggling with various life experiences. For this reason it is indisputable that Invisible Man is - principally - a bildungsroman as the novel "follows the development of the hero [...] through a troubled quest for identity& ... did the author not only mean to create a story limited to a certain individual - even though individuality is a crucial theme in Invisible Man - but also wanted to put emph...

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