CRITICAL READINGS: Invisible Man and the Mysteries of Reconstruction.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Ellison, Ralph, 1914-1994; Invisible Man (Book : Ellison); World War II; American civil rights movement

The article focuses on mysteries of reconstruction in the novel "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison. It mentios novel emerges with conclusion of World War II in 1945 but before the end of legal segregation in the U.S. It also mentions his career grappling with the drama of integration raised by the civil rights movement and different metaphor for the trajectory of the nation.