Reflection of Racism in Ralph Waldo Ellisonâ€...

Reflection of Racism in Ralph Waldo Ellison’s Invisible Man

Author Name : Mr. Bagwade Sunil Subhash

ABSTRACT Ralph Waldo Ellison is African American writers in the contemporary era. He has achieved distinct position by his writing style. His novel Invisible Man won the National Book Award in 1953. It presents the reality of the racial discrimination which suffered black in the United States. This paper attempts to analyse the racial discrimination between the white people and black people. And approach towards the protest of African American to the American government and white people. Ralph caricatured the suppression, protest, hardships and crucial life of the African Americans. He noted that black people had not the rights which white people had. In short, author highlights the pathetic condition of the black people which laid them towards the protest, which was for their right. He used the narrator to focus on the status of the black people. The narrator of the novel became invisible man due to the social structure and hardships of the life. Author stressed that black people forgot their value in social structure as human being in their early days. He portrayed the African American’s life in the 1920s and late 1930s.