Richard Wright /
Provides a critical introduction to Richard Wright's best-known works and to the life of an intellectual whose work changed the course of race relations and American literature in the early and mid-twentieth century.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY :
EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Critical insights.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- About This Volume
- "Print Compels Us": Richard Wright's Literary Protest
- Critical Contexts
- The Biographical and Historical Contexts of Richard Wright's "I Tried To Be a Communist"
- The Meaning of Rape in Richard Wright's Native Son
- Richard Wright's Readers
- Heidegger and The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream
- Critical Readings
- A Child's Eye View: Humanizing Naturalism's Horrors in Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children
- Revisiting Richard Wright's Native Son as Protest Novel
- Richard Wright's Black Boy: Black Consciousness, Artistic Expression, and Social Justice
- Richard Wright's "I Tried To Be a Communist": Its Literary Effectiveness
- Of Maids and Men: Racial Mythologies and Gender Revelations in Richard Wright's "Man of All Work"
- A First Look at Native Son: Richard Wright's Uncensored Film
- Richard Wright's Rage: Figures of Disability in A Father's Law
- Resources
- Chronology of Richard Wright's Life
- Works by Richard Wright
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Index.