Prophets of Recognition Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty

This comparative analysis looks at Ralph Ellinson's Invisible Man , Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye , Saul Bellow's Sieze the Day , and Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter , and argues that they share a common conception of the individual's relationship to American society.