Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion

Question:

Read the passage carefully and answer the question.
"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in the circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, figments of their imagination. Indeed everything and anything except me"

The above lines are taken from a famous novel "Invisible Man". Who is the author of the novel?

Options:

Ralph Ellison

Anthony Giddens

Oscar Lewis

Rajni Kothari

Correct Answer:

Ralph Ellison

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 1: Ralph Ellison

Ellison’s novel Invisible Man is a famous indictment of racism against African Americans in the USA.