LEADER 04686cam 2200529 a 4500001 ocn682891245 003 OCoLC 005 20141212074337.0 008 110122s2011 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 2011002903 020 9780230112810 (hardback) 020 0230112811 (hardback) 029 1 AU@ |b000046621919 035 (Sirsi) o682891245 035 (OCoLC)682891245 040 DLC |cDLC |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dBWX |dCDX |dVRC |dSTF |dSLV |dERE |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 EREE 050 00 PS3545.R815 |bZ818 2011 082 00 813/.52 |222 084 LIT004040SOC001000LIT004020 |2bisacsh 245 00 Richard Wright : |bnew readings in the 21st century / |cedited by Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow. 260 New York, NY : |bPalgrave Macmillan, |c2011. 300 x, 292 pages : |billustrations ; |c22 cm. 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 490 1 Signs of race 520 "Richard Wright : New Readings in the 21st Century positions Wright studies in the 21st century in the best way possible. Richard Wright's legacy is updated in order to meet the needs of a growing international readership. This critical volume is also a step in making his accomplishments known to new generations of scholars. Gathering some of the most important Wright scholarship in the world, along with international work of emerging Wright critics, the collection contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently published A Father's Law (2008). The collection combines literary and cultural theory with methods of archival and bibliographic research to provide an expanded vision of Wright's potential impact on thinking in the 21st century"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 "Gathering some of the most important Wright scholarship in the world, along with international work of emerging Wright critics, the collection contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently published A Father's Law (2008)"-- |cProvided by publisher. 505 0 From new Chicago renaissance from Wright to fair : modern and post-modern Eden: Richard Wright / R. Baxter Miller -- Wright among the "G-Men" : how the FBI framed Paris Noir / William J. Maxwell -- A Father's Law, 1950s masculinity, and Richard Wright's agony over integration / Leonard Cassuto -- Seeking salvation in a naturalistic universe : Richard Wright's use of his southern religious background in Black Boy (American Hunger) / Robert J. Butler -- "White People to Either Side" : Native Son and the poetics of space / Isabelle Soto -- Becoming Richard Wright : space and the WPA / Thadious M. Davis -- Savage Holiday : documentary noir and true crime in 12 million black voices / Paula Rabinowitz -- A Father's Law and Black Metropolis : intellectual growth and literary vision / Joyce Ann Joyce -- A queer finale : sympathy and privacy in Wright's A Father's Law / John C. Charles -- Changing texts : censorship, "Reality" and fiction in Native Son / Claudine Raynaud -- "The Astonishing Humanity" : domestic discourses in the friendship and fiction of Richard Wright and Carson McCullers / Julieann Ulin -- When Wright bid McKay break bread : tracing black transnational geneaology / Gary Holcomb -- The political art of Wright's "Fire and Cloud" / Robert Shulman -- Richard Wright and the circumCaribbean / John Lowe. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-277) and index. 600 10 Wright, Richard, |d1908-1960 |xCriticism and interpretation. |=^A18281 650 0 African Americans in literature. |=^A49990 700 1 Craven, Alice Mikal. |=^A1061253 700 1 Dow, William |q(William E.) |=^A1060648 830 0 Signs of race. |=^A591276 949 PS3545.R815 Z818 2011 |hJOYNER48 |ojmpl |i30372015798405 938 Baker and Taylor |bBTCP |nBK0009428662 938 YBP Library Services |bYANK |n6821165 938 Blackwell Book Service |bBBUS |n6821165 938 Coutts Information Services |bCOUT |n16456204 994 C0 |bERE 596 1 998 2622521