The idea of-the invisibility in our culture is no new thing. The great H.G. Wells wrote a book called The Invisible Man. In it he imaginatively explores the development of a professor's ingenious use of science to effect his own invisibility. Invisibility becomes a metaphor for invincibility. His becoming invisible is by his own choosing. He literally disappears with the ingestion of a certain chemical solution, which eventually drives him insane. The point here is this man, Griffin, chooses to become whatever he desires, a person who cannot be seen, only heard. Nothingness is the form he ultimately selects as a way of being.

On the other hand, we have the nameless protagonist in that great masterpiece of art by Ralph Ellison. His book Invisible Man is a commentary on the invisible status o…