Table of Contents:
  • Wright as global intellectual and racial reformer. James Smethurst: After modernism: Richard Wright interprets the black belt
  • Cynthia Tolentino: Sociological interests, racial reform: Richard Wright's intellectual of color
  • Mark Mvé Bekale: The Negro intellectual and the tragic sense of hybridity: a study in postcolonial existentialism
  • Anthony Dawahare: Richard Wright's Native son and the dialectics of black experience
  • The pursuit of sovereignty in Wright's political and artistic odyssey. Laurence Cossu-Beaumont: Richard Wright and his editors: a work under the influence from the signifyin(g) rebel to the exiled intellectual
  • Shoshana Milgram Knapp: Recontextualizing Richard Wright's The outsider: Hugo, Dostoevsky, Max Eastman, and Ayn Rand
  • Barbara Foley: A dramatic picture of woman from feudalism to fascism: Richard Wright's Black hope
  • Wright's other destinies: gothicism and the neo-baroque. Charles Scruggs: Forged in injustice: the gothic motif in the fiction of Ernest Hemingway and Richard Wright
  • William E. Dow: Pulp gothicism in Richard Wright's The outsider
  • Michel Feith: Working the underground seam: Richard Wright's The man who lived underground in the light of Percival Everett's Zulus
  • Richard Wright's Sweet airs: experiments with performance genres. Bruce Allen Dick: Forgotten chapter: Richard Wright, playwrights, and the modern theater
  • Steven C. Tracy: A Wright to sing the blues: King Joe's punch
  • Transnational shifts: silence and sentiment. Alice Mikal Craven: Richard Wright's Island of silence in the long dream
  • Sudhi Rajiv: Expanding metaphors of marginalization: Richard Wright, Sharankumar Limbale, and a post-caste imaginary
  • Sandy Alexandre: Culmination in miniature: late style and the essence of Richard Wright's haiku.