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______. "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke." 1958. Shadow and Act. New York: Random, 1964. 45-59.
______. "Harlem Is Nowhere." 1948. Shadow and Act. New York: Random, 1964. 294-302.
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______. "Out of the Hospital and Under the Bar." Soon, One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes 1940-1962. Ed. Herbert Hill. New York: Knopf, 1963. 242-90.
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Ellison, Ralph, William Styron, Robert Penn Warren, and C. Vann Woodward. "The Uses of History in Fiction." Southern Literary Journal 1.2 (Spring 1969): 57-90.
Fischer, Russell G. "Invisible Man as History." CLA Journal 17.3 (1974): 338-67.
Fraiberg, Selma. "Two Modern Incest Heroes." Partisan Review 28 (1961): 655-61.
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Stanford, Anne Folwell. "He Speaks for Whom?: Inscription and Reinscription of Women in Invisible Man and The Salt Eaters." MELUS 18 (Summer 1993): 17-31. Rpt. in The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison. Ed. Robert J. Butler. Westport: Greenwood, 2000. 115-26.
Stepto, Robert B. "Literacy and Hibernation: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1979. 163-94.
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