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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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Since the 1940s, when Richard Wright published his best-selling Native Son, he has been one of the most widely read writers of his time and after. Many of Wright's stories were accounts of racially motivated violence that shocked the public at the time of publication and forced his readers to be aware of the horrors of racism in America. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K.A. Appiah, editors of Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, selected...
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This program presents a biography of Richard Wright, author of Black Boy and Native Son, taking viewers from his impoverished childhood to his involvement in Chicago's Black Renaissance, the Communist Party, and the witch-hunts of the McCarthy era, to his exile and death in Paris. Underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the film skillfully intercuts dramatic excerpts from Wright's work with historical footage and the recollections...
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The author "discusses Wright's work in terms of its relevant literary, moral, and political contexts. Mr. McCall undertakes an intensive close analysis of Richard Wright's major and most representative achievements, a historical study of Wright's position as a left-wing polemicist and Black Spokesman ('Black Power' is Wrights phrase), and an appraisal of Wright's influence on subsequent black writers and of the continuing importance of his work.
11) Bigger Thomas
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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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Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers in every era: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' a man" yet still treated like a child, Dave struggles for an identity - and there's one thing, one symbol of manhood, he thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun. Dave finds a way to buy a pistol, and...
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This bibliography of Richard Wright's library and reading serves as a key to understanding the development, philosophies, and aesthetics of this great writer and provides accurate information for the study of intertextuality in his works.
Richard Wright, born in Mississippi in 1908, was largely self-taught. His only formal schooling was high school. As he recounts in Black Boy, he used a white friend's library card at the Memphis Public Library,
...17) Richard Wright
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Traces briefly the author's life, examines his novels and other writings, and establishes his place in American literature.
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"Born in rural Mississippi, the grandson of slaves, Richard Wright overcame daunting obstacles to achieve literary recognition as the creator of some of America's most powerful black literature. Wright's works changed the cultural landscape by challenging old stereotypes and myths about race. This critical volume helps students appreciate the literary significance of such groundbreaking works as Native Son and the autobiographical Black Boy. It serves...
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