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llison Ralph Ellison( novelist, scholar,critic) ? Born March 1, 1914 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ? Father died in 1917 。Mother active in socialist politics ? Attended college at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama ? Moved to New York City。studied sculpture , photography Richard Wright ? Took seven years to write Invisible Man(1952) ? Taught at Bard College, and NYU, Shadow and Act(1964) ? Continued to work on his second novel ? Died April 16, 1994 ? pancreatic cancer, Prologue from The Invisible Man 39。39。I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook 幽靈 like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe。 nor am I one of your Hollywoodmovie ectoplasms電影圖象 . I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber纖維織物 and liquids and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Invisible Man The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black munity , attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and being the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of the Brotherhood, and retreating撤退 , 退卻 amid violence and confusion to the basement地下室 ,lair窩 of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. Invisible Man ? ? underground hole brilliantly lighted by electricity taps from a pany Light and Power, ? A highschool student he delivered an oration演說(shuō) to them on the virtues of humility Before he had to watch vulgar, coarse entertainment and joining a blindfold fistfight. ? Delivering his speech he mistakenly speak out social equality in stead ofsocial responsibility, and to apologize abjectly悲慘地 ,卑鄙地 in order to get a scholarship to a college. ? . ? 2. At the college he finds the head to be a hypocrite偽君子 to flatter to the white munity. ? Expelled from the college, soon falls in with the ruthless the