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Richard Wright in Context

Author : Michael Nowlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108803296
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright in Context written by Michael Nowlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. Best known as the trailblazing, bestselling author of Native Son and Black Boy, he established himself as an experimental literary intellectual in France who creatively drew on some of the leading ideas of his time - Marxism, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism - to explore the sources and meaning of racism both in the United States and worldwide. Richard Wright in Context gathers thirty-three new essays by leading scholars relating Wright's writings to biographical, regional, social, literary, and intellectual contexts essential to understanding them. It explores the places that shaped his life and enabled his literary destiny, the social and cultural contexts he both observed and immersed himself in, and the literary and intellectual contexts that made him one the most famous Black writers in the world at mid-century.

Richard Wright in Context

Author : Michael Nowlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108488952
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright in Context written by Michael Nowlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. Best known as the trailblazing, bestselling author of Native Son and Black Boy, he established himself as an experimental literary intellectual in France who creatively drew on some of the leading ideas of his time - Marxism, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism - to explore the sources and meaning of racism both in the United States and worldwide. Richard Wright in Context gathers thirty-three new essays by leading scholars relating Wright's writings to biographical, regional, social, literary, and intellectual contexts essential to understanding them. It explores the places that shaped his life and enabled his literary destiny, the social and cultural contexts he both observed and immersed himself in, and the literary and intellectual contexts that made him one the most famous Black writers in the world at mid-century.

Richard Wright in Context

Author : Michael Everett Nowlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108773522
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright in Context written by Michael Everett Nowlin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006302859X
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] written by Richard Wright and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson. When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Yet from 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” Wright’s once controversial, now celebrated autobiography measures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a Black boy. Enduring poverty, hunger, fear, abuse, and hatred while growing up in the woods of Mississippi, Wright lied, stole, and raged at those around him—whites indifferent, pitying, or cruel and Blacks resentful of anyone trying to rise above their circumstances. Desperate for a different way of life, he headed north, eventually arriving in Chicago, where he forged a new path and began his career as a writer. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to “hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo.” Seventy-five years later, his words continue to reverberate. “To read Black Boy is to stare into the heart of darkness,” John Edgar Wideman writes in his foreword. “Not the dark heart Conrad searched for in Congo jungles but the beating heart I bear.” One of the great American memoirs, Wright’s account is a poignant record of struggle and endurance—a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time.

Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy

Author : Robert Felgar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313008035
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy written by Robert Felgar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-04-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Boy, Richard Wright triumphs over an ugly, racist world by fashioning an inspiring, powerful, beautiful, and fictionalized autobiography. To help students understand and appreciate his story in the cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary. The selection of unique documents is designed to place in sharp relief the issue of pervasive racism in American society. Documents include excerpts from other autobiographies and a novel, legal documents, speeches, an interview, an anthropological study, magazine and newspaper articles, and contemporary editorials. Most of the documents are available in no other printed form. From Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois on the one hand, to Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, and white supremacist pronouncements on the other, Felgar creates a dialogue between the voices of oppressed blacks, including Richard Wright, and those of oppressing whites over the issue of race and racism. Students will be able to analyze a variety of perspectives on this issue from the earliest days of the American republic to the present day. Felgar also includes primary documents on the American dream of success, which has remained elusive for so many blacks. A chapter on the American autobiographical tradition uses excerpts from Ben Franklin's autobiography, as well as from those by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois, to place Wright squarely in the tradition of this genre and show that Wright was more a believer in the myth of perpetual upward mobility than he realized. In a chapter called The Dream Deferred, documents show how freed blacks were just as enslaved by new and restrictive laws after the Civil War as they had been under slavery. Each chapter concludes with study questions, ideas for written and oral examination, and suggested readings to aid students in examining the issues raised by Wright's autobiography.

Richard Wright

Author : Hazel Rowley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226730387
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright written by Hazel Rowley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skillfully interweaving quotations from Wright's writings, Rowley portrays a man who transcended the times in which he lived and sought to reconcile opposing cultures in his work. In this lively, finely crafted narrative, Wright--passionate, complex, courageous, and flawed--comes vibrantly to life. Two 8-page photo inserts.

Bük #13

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : BuK
ISBN 13 : 9781933540030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Bük #13 written by Richard Wright and published by BuK. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man Who Lived Underground

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062971468
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Lived Underground written by Richard Wright and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller One of the Best Books of 2021 by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and Esquire, and one of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Books of the Year “The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any ‘greatest writers of the 20th century’ list that doesn’t start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright’s most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.” —Kiese Laymon A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and violence in America by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would see publication in Wright's lifetime only in drastically condensed and truncated form, and ultimately be included in the posthumous short story collection Eight Men. Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author’s estate, the full text of the work that meant more to Wright than any other (“I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration”) is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, “Memories of My Grandmother.” Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson, contributes an afterword.

Pagan Spain

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Pagan Spain written by Richard Wright and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Pagan Spain" by Richard Wright. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright

Author : Michel Fabre
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062643
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright written by Michel Fabre and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed for its comprehensive and sensitive picture of one of America's most renowned writers, The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright received the Anisfield-Wolf Award on Race Relations when it was first published. This first paperback edition contains a new preface and bibliographic essay, updating changes in the author's approach to his subject and discussing works published on Wright since 1973.

Native Son

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330313124
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Native Son written by Richard Wright and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published, 1940. Novel about a young Negro who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to free himself proves helpless

James Baldwin in Context

Author : D. Quentin Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108476720
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book James Baldwin in Context written by D. Quentin Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Baldwin in Context provides a wide-ranging collection of approaches to the work of an essential black American author who is just as relevant now as he was during his turbulent heyday in the mid-twentieth century. The perspectives range from those who knew Baldwin personally, to scholars who have dedicated decades to studying him, to a new generation of scholars for whom Baldwin is nearly a historical figure. This collection complements the ever-growing body of scholarship on Baldwin by combining traditional inroads into his work, such as music and expatriation, with new approaches, such as intersectionality and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Native Son

Author : Joyce Hart
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781931798068
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Native Son written by Joyce Hart and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and achievements of the twentieth-century African American novelist, whose early life was shaped by a strict grandmother who had been a slave, an illiterate father, and a mother educated as a schoolteacher.

American Hunger

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062041509
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book American Hunger written by Richard Wright and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling continuation of Richard Wright's great autobiographical work, Black Boy Anyone who has read Richard Wright's Black Boy knows it to be one of the great American autobiographies. Covering Wright's early life in the South, the book concludes with his departure in 1934 for a new life in the North. American Hunger (first published more than thirty years after the appearance of Black Boy) is the continuation of that story. A vital, richly anecdotal work, American Hunger treats with feeling and often with wry humor Wright's struggle to make his way in the North—in Chicago—as a store clerk, dishwasher, and eventually as a writer. He deals movingly with his early days in the Communist Party and with his attempts to keep his integrity in the face of Party demands that he subordinate his artistic goals to its needs. And he recounts with a mixture of pain and irony his break with the Party and the tortured period of ostracism that followed. There is an unsettling and totally frank personal story here, and a lot of raw social history as well.

Richard Wright

Author : Hazel Rowley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805070880
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright written by Hazel Rowley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging, full-scale biography of the author of Black Boy and Native Son, Rowley chronicles Wright's extraordinary journey from a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international renown as a writer, fiercely independent thinker and outspoken critic of racism. Skilfully interweaving quotations from Wright's writings, Rowley draws on recently discovered material to shed new light on Wright's relationship with Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison and others, as well as his self-imposed exile in France. A vibrant, finely crafted narrative.

The Politics of Richard Wright

Author : Jane Anna Gordon
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813175178
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Richard Wright written by Jane Anna Gordon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native Son (1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship throughout his career for the graphic sexuality, intense violence, and communist themes in his work. Yet, many political theorists have ignored his radical ideas. In The Politics of Richard Wright, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. Several contributors explore how the writer mixed fact and fiction to capture the empirical and emotional reality of living as a black person in a racist world. Others examine the role of gender in Wright's canonical and lesser-known writing and the implications of black male vulnerability. They also discuss the topics of black subjectivity, internationalism and diaspora, and the legacy of and responses to slavery in America. Wright's contributions to American political thought remain vital and relevant today. The Politics of Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy.

12 Million Black Voices

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN 13 : 9781635618815
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book 12 Million Black Voices written by Richard Wright and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dusty rural villages to northern ghettos, 12 Million Black Voices is an unflinching portrayal of the lives that many black Americans lived in the 1930s. It is a testament to the strength of black communities throughout America.