2015•Unpublished venueRequires access

Individual Identity and Collective Identity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

Han Xi

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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man deals with the identity issue fundamental for black Americans to reestablish themselves inthe white-dominated society. While the narrator suffers from identity crisis in multiples ways, the paper focuses on the conflict be-tween his need to build a distinctive individual identity with the prerequisite to surrender to collective identity in order to blend inthe group.

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Key concepts: Identity (music), Collective identity, Surrender, Identity crisis, White (mutation), Order (exchange), Sociology, Psychoanalysis