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Richard Wright
… originally published in 1945 by Harper & Brothers … The text as restored by the Library of America was published in 1991 in a volume entitled Richard Wright: Later…
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Hazel Rowley
Consistently an outsider - a child of the fundamentalist South, a self-taught intellectual, a black man married to a white woman - Richard Wright nonetheless became the unparalleled voice of…
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Salem Press
Explores the work of the groundbreaking author of Black Boy and Native Son, to place the author’s body of work in the canon of American literature, the literature of identity…
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Includes a selection of Richard Wright’s haiku on pages 153-171.
Richard Wright is one of the most important African American writers. By attacking the taboos and hypocrisy that other writers had failed to address, he revolutionized American literature and created…
Michel Fabre
Richard Wright, the Mississippi-born black writer, saw himself as an outsider between two cultures, a man searching. In these twelve essays, Michel Fabre follows Wright’s search in an investigation of…
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Will Bradley, Martin Clark
Featuring essays from leading cultural voices, Richard Wright s second Gagosian book provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated overview of the Turner Prize winning artist s work from 2010 to…
Collects some fifty interviews, many of which are little known in the United States because they appeared in non-English European periodicals and newspapers. This collection reveals a serious, often didactic…
Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. This book gathers thirty-three new essays by an international group of scholars relating…
Robert J. Butler
His writings reflect his experiences growing up in the poverty and racial strife of the South, and his thoughts on major social issues. This volume traces the critical reception of…
Robert Felgar
Examining Richard Wright’s autobiographical and fictional works, this study also serves students of literature and social history as it explores the themes of racism and all types of institutionalized oppression…
This book is affords us the opportunity to rediscover Richard Wright and reexamine his work and its continuing significance in light of our contemporary situation. Moreover, the collection allows us…
In the history of Richard Wright, perhaps more than with other writers, a knowledge of what he actually read, and of what authors he preferred, is essential in explaining his…
William Miller,Gregory Christie
Richard Wright and the library card tells how the black writer developed his love for storytelling by the tales told to him as a child in Memphis from older members…
This Companion will be used in undergraduate and graduate courses on African American studies and American literature. It will appeal to those wishing to examine black literature in relationship to…
In The Politics of Richard Wright, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author.
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. The Politics of Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for…
In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary analyses Wright’s work in relation…
Duchess, Ph.D. Harris
In 1940 Richard Wright wrote his most famous book, Native Son. It was the first best-selling novel by an African American writer. Because the influence of this novel was so…
In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. This book analyses Wright’s work in relation to contemporary racial and…
Thomas Wright, Alice Kyteler, Richard De Ledrede
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy , discovered the haiku in the last eighteen…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Richard Wright’s Native Son, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
David Stehling
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: The motif of blindness is an idea…
Eugene E. Miller
To the end of his life Richard Wright attempted to discover and to express the force between black artistic creation. This fascination with this distinctive Afro-American perception is the key…
Kouta Ashraf
Racial oppression, the quest for freedom and the struggle for survival are the major aspects of African-American history. From the advent of the seventeenth century up to the twentieth century…
Bigger Thomas, a young man living in 1930s Chicago, takes a job with a wealthy white family, the Daltons. After a night of drinking with her boyfriend, Mary, the Dalton’s…
This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s…
Written by multinational scholars, this collection of essays exploring Richard Wright’s travel writings shows how in his hands the genre of travel writing resisted, adapted, or modified the forms and…
In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, authors Kiuchi and Hakutani document the life in letters of one of the great African American writers of the twentieth century. Entries are documented…
Sobherakhshan Nasim
It is clear that the problems of race and racism will never finish. This book focused on the racial problems that who is responsible for the superiority of whites and…
Jean Francois Gounard,Joseph J. Rogers
Jean-Francois Gounard’s examination of the writings of Richard Wright and James Baldwin achieves a balance between the fiery Wright and the placid Baldwin.
A Study Guide for Richard Wright’s Bright and Morning Star, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Andrew Warnes
Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) presents an account of crime and racism which remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. Part of the…
Critics in this volume reassess the prescient nature of Richard Wright’s mind as well as his life and body of writings, especially those directly concerned with America and its racial…
M. Lynn Weiss
Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright began their careers as marginals within marginalized groups, and their desire to live peacefully in unorthodox marriages led them away from America and into permanent…
Reveals Richard Wright’s poetic vision toward the human world. These essays open up a new territory in Wright studies by tracing the development of Wright’s aesthetic and its relationship to…
This casebook reprints a selection of reviews, criticism, and scholarly analysis of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth (1991).
Abdul R. JanMohamed
A literary exploration of the prevalence of death–its connection to political oppression and its use as salvation–in Richard Wright’s work.
Michael Nieto Garcia
Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown, each author prominently displays his race in the title of his autobiography…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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