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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 Ralph Ellison's Life
1.1.2 Ralph Ellison's View of Art
1.1.3 The Landmark Novel
1.2 Literature Review of Invisible Man
1.3 Creativity and Organization of the Present Thesis
Chapter Two Social Background and Ralph Ellison's Status
2.1 Social Background in 1950s
2.2Ralph Ellison's Ingenuity and the New Image in Afro-American Literature.
2.2.1 Ralph Ellison's Ingenuity
2.2.2 New Image in Afro-American literature
Chapter Three Loss of Identity
3.1 The Narrator's Servility in His Early Years
3.2 Anti-black Racism as an Obstacle to Blacks' Identity
3.3 Other Three Categories of Afro-Americans Who Lost Themselves
3.3.1 Masked Blacks
3.3.2 Post-Slavery Blacks
3.3.3 Radical Blacks
Chapter Four Search for Identity
4.1 His Awakening
4.2 His Freedom
4.3 His Responsibility
Chapter Five Conclusion
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