United by a shared goal of addressing racial injustices, they brought Ellison's now classic novel to life with a series of haunting scenes, such as
Invisible Man Retreat, Harlem, New York.
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Invisible Man Retreat, Harlem, New York, 1952 Gelatin silver print, PHOTOGRAPH BY GORDON PARKS COPYRIGHT: COURTESY OF AND COPYRIGHT THE GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION.
Not exact matches
There was something irresistibly comic about the sight of these two old
men retreating as if pulled by
invisible strings, but she knew that she must not laugh.
The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of «the Brotherhood», and
retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the
Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.