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Introduction / Harold Bloom - Critical Extracts: James Baldwin / Irving Howe / Ralph Ellision / Houston A. Baker, Jr. / Sherley Anne Williams / Charles T. Davis / Nina Kressner Cobb / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / Charles Johnson -- How "Bigger" Was Born / Richard Wright -- Native Son and Three Kinds of Revolution / Edward Margolies -- Bessie's Blues / Edward A. Watson -- Native Son / Kenneth Kinnamon -- Richard Wright and Native Son: Not Guilty / Dorothy...
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Readers of this Critical Companion will discover the richness of Mosley's writings, as well as his contributions to the African-American literary tradition, the genres of detective writing and science fiction, and American literature in general. Mosley's influences, inspirations, obstacles, and successes are presented in a richly drawn biographical chapter, which incorporates the author's most recent interviews. Mosley's first detective novel, Devil...
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Introduction / Kenneth Kinnamon -- Giving Bigger a Voice: The Politics of Narrative in Native Son /. John M. Reilly -- Native Sons and Foreign Daughter / Trudier Harris -- Richard Wright and the Dynamics of Place in Afro-American Literature / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Bigger's Blues: Native Son and the Articulation of Afro-American Modernism -- Notes on Contributors -- Selected Bibliography.
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Published less than fifty years ago, Ralph Ellison's Invisible man shares with older classic works the odd quality of seeming to have been in place much longer. It is a novel that encompasses much of the American scene and character: though told by a single Afro-American voice and set in the contemporary South and then in modern New York City, its references are to the First World War, to Reconstruction, to the Civil War and slavery, to the founding...
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Ralph Ellison and the Cultural Turn in Black Politics2. Race, Literature, and the Politics of Numbers, or Not Quite a Million Men Marching3. Of Southern Strategies4. To Move without Moving: Reconstructing the Fictions of SociologyConclusion: Invisible Man at FiftyNotesIndex.
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"In A Man's Game, John Dudley argues that in the climate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when authors such as Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, and Edith Wharton were penning their major works, literary endeavors were widely viewed as frivolous and inconsistent with the manly ideals of the 'strenuous life' as advocated by Theodore Roosevelt. Male writers such as Crane and Norris defined themselves and their work in contrast to these...
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"By lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people, contends Trudier Harris, white Americans were performing a rite of exorcism designed to eradicate the "black beast" from their midst, or, at the very least, to render him powerless and emasculated. Black writers have graphically portrayed such tragic incidents in their writings. In doing so, they seem to be acting out a communal role--a perpetuation of an oral tradition bent on...
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