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The study aims to explore how marginalized subjects manage their visibility amidst racialized surveillance in two literary works.

Monitoring the gaze: Strategic (in)visibility and resistance in Invisible Man and Home Fire

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This article examines how marginalized subjects navigate visibility in literature, highlighting implications for identity and ethics.

The study aims to explore how marginalized subjects manage their visibility amidst racialized surveillance in two literary works.
Comparative analysis of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
Application of surveillance studies and Judith Butler’s notion of performativity
Theorization of (in)visibility as a dynamic process
Both novels illustrate that marginalized subjects actively calibrate their visibility to negotiate identity.
Despite tactical disruptions of surveillance, strategies are eventually assimilated back into dominant power structures.
The analysis suggests embracing an ethics of opacity as a collective challenge against racialized surveillance.

Rania KERKENI (2026) studied this question.

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