This offering in the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series considers Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man through a selection of critical essays.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-248) and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Ralph Ellison and the uses of imagination / Robert Bone -- Literacy and hibernation: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Robert B. Stepto -- Ralph Ellison and the literary "Ancestor": Dostoevski / Joseph Frank -- Invisible Man as the trickster tale / Philippe Whyte -- Notes on the invisible women in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Claudia Tate -- Ralph Ellison's trueblooded Bildungsroman / Kenneth Burke -- Ralph Waldo Ellison: Anthropology, modernism, and jazz / Berndt Ostendorf -- Ellison's masks and the novel of reality / Thomas Schaub -- Invisible Man, Huck, and Jim / Alan Nadel -- Signifying modernist: Ralph Ellison and the limits of the double consciousness / William Lyne -- Ellison's Invisible Man: Emersonianism revised / Kun Jong Lee -- Novel: Accommodation / Edith Schor -- Chronology.