Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Quest of Identity

This research paper attempts to study the Negro problem ofidentity and existence in the postwar American Negro novelwith special reference to the saga of survival and invisibilityof a nameless young black man in Ralph Ellison‟s InvisibleMan. The core of this study tackles the desperate quest, thisman is living in a blind, nihilistic, and a racist Americanworld, which denies his existence, and reduces him almost toa non-entity making him ever more restless, possessed andexhausted.