What role do women play in Ralph Ellison's novel, The Invisible Man?

Question

In most of the novels written by African Americans until today, there is a great space where sex ought to be; and what usually fills this space is violence (james baldwin) Is this true of Invisble Man?

Answer 1

Written in the politically and socially turbulent 1940s, Invisible Man is one of the definitive novels of the African-American experience; it is also one of the definitive novels for all Americans. The issues Ellison so powerfully addresses are those that confront everyone who lives in the modern world: not only racism but the very question of personal identity, our frustrated impulse to assert ourselves in a world which is metaphorically blind. Ellison's hero is invisible within the larger culture because he is black, but his feelings can easily be understood by all those who experience the anonymity of modern life. Shortly before his death Ellison acknowledged the fact that his novel had expanded the very meaning of the word "invisible." Invisibility, he said, "touches anyone who lives in a big metropolis." (New Yorker, 5/2/94)
The novel's nameless narrator (the Invisible Man) is representative of many intelligent young African-Americans of his generation. Born and raised in the rural South, he is a star pupil at a college for black students. He dreams of racial uplift through humility and hard work, a doctrine preached by the school and the larger Southern culture. When his innocent idealism lands him in trouble, he comes to understand the hypocrisy behind the school's professed philosophy and heads for the greater freedom of New York.
There were protests over the lack of positive female characters in the novel. The author however was trying to be as realistic as possible!

Answer 2

To be exalted means to change right into a God or Goddess and performance all that God has. even as this contains the means to have toddlers for the length of eternity, this would not mean that adult adult males or women human beings will be re-effective paintings-horses. What does God do? that is what exalted beings will be doing. we do not understand all that God does for paintings or enjoyement in heaven yet inspite of else there is, we are able to savour it too. Exaltation is about eternal advantages and happiness for all that qualify. So inspite of all we will be doing in heaven we wont be depressing. we are going to be fulfilled and satisfied previous description.

Answer 3

simply put, whoever made that statement does not read Afr Amer novels. why must sex be there and what space?
Your teacher or whoever might be feeding you propaganda not literature, where's the violence in go tell it on the mountain? or every goodbye ain't gone by itabari njeri?