Thunder on the stage : the dramatic vision of Richard Wright /

Richard Wright's dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright's long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright's family and Wright scholars,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dick, Bruce, 1953- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024].
Subjects:	Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960. Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Criticism and interpretation. Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Stage history. African American authors > Biography. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Theater > United States > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

The ethics of acting Jim Crow
From minstrelsy to Shakespeare to authentic Black theater : playwrights, writers, critics, and intertextual play
Distant thunder : Wright, the Federal Theatre, and early attempts at writing plays
Native Son on stage
Orator, performer, and stage writer pursuing social change
Boxing Jim Crow
Reconstructing identity : the influence of Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, and others
Acting Bigger Thomas
"Daddy Goodness" : Richard Wright's last lampoon.