Part one : materials / Pancho Savery
Introduction / Susan Resneck Parr
The use of culture and artistic freedom : the right of a minority writer / James E. Walton
Making Invisible man matter / Walter Slatoff
Discovering an art of the self in history : a principle of Afro-American life / John M. Reilly
Learning to listen to lower frequencies / Gordon O. Taylor
A deeper literacy : teaching Invisible man from aboriginal ground / R. Baxter Miller
Invisible man and the American way of intellectual history / Wilson J. Moses
"Not like an arrow, but a boomerang" : Ellison's existential blues / Pancho Savery
Ellison's narrator as Emersonian scholar / Eleanor Lyons
"An American Negro idiom" : Invisible man and the politics of culture / Cushing Strout
Losing it "even as he finds it" : the invisible man's search for identity / Christopher Sten.
Invisible man and the European tradition / Leonard Deutsch
Invisible man and the comic tradition / James R. Andreas
Invisible man in an ethnic literature course / Neil Nakadate
Understanding the lower frequencies : names and the novel / John Cooke
Focusing on the prologue and the epilogue / David L. Vanderwerken
"Ball the jack" : surreality, sexuality, and the role of women in Invisible man / Mary Rohrberger
Sample study guides / James R. Andreas and Susan Resneck Parr.
