Richard Wright / editor, Kimberly Drake, Scripps College, California.

Other author Drake, Kimberly, 1965-
Format Electronic
Edition[First edition].
Publication InfoIpswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]
Descriptionxxviii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
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SeriesCritical insights
Critical insights. ^A1030970
Contents "Print compels us": Richard Wright's literary protest / Kimberly Drake -- Critical contexts -- The biographical and historical contexts of Richard Wright's "I tried to be a communist" / Robert C. Evans -- The meaning of rape in Richard Wright's Native son / Kimberly Drake -- Richard Wright's readers / Konstantina Karageorgos -- Heidegger and The Outsider, Savage holiday, and The long dream / Hue Woodson -- Cristal readings -- A child's eye view : humanizing naturalism's horrors in Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's children / Jericho Williams -- Revisiting Richard Wright's Native son as protest novel / Lisa Tomlinson -- Richard Wright's Black boy : black consciousness, artistic expression, and social justice / Julie Prebel -- Richard Wright's "I tried to be a communist" : its literary effectiveness / Robert C. Evans -- Of maids and men : racial mythologies and gender revelations in Richard Wright's "Man of all work" / Shana A. Russell -- A first look at Native son : Richard Wright's uncensored film / Beth Bennett -- Richard Wright's rage : figures of disability in A father's law / Kimberly Drake.
Abstract Critical Insights: Richard Wright explores the work of this groundbreaking author of Black Boy and Native Son, to place the authors body of work in the canon of American literature, the literature of identity and literature of protest.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2020300387
ISBN9781682179178 (hardcover)

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