The Cambridge companion to Richard Wright / edited by Glenda R. Carpio.
The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright Hailed as the father of black literature in the twentieth century, Richard Wright was an iconoclast, an intellectual of towering stature, whose multidisciplinary erudition rivals only that of W.E.B. Du Bois. The collection captures Wright's immense powe...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Richard Wright's art and politics / Glenda R. Carpio
- The literary ecology of Native son and Black boy / George Hutchinson
- Richard Wright's planned incongruity: Black boy as modern living / Jay Garcia
- Marxism, Communism, and Richard Wright's Depression-era work / Nathaniel F. Mills
- Rhythms of race in Richard wright's 'Big boy leaves home' / Robert B. Stepto
- Sincere art and honest science: Richard Wright and the Chicago School of Sociology / Gene Andrew Jarrett
- Outside joke: humorlessness and masculinity in Richard Wright / Kathryn S. Roberts
- Freedom in a Godless and unhappy world: Wright as outsider / Tommie Shelby
- Richard Wright, Paris noir, and transatlantic networks: a book history perspective / Laurence Cossu-Beaumont
- Expatriation in Wright's late fiction / Alice Mikal Craven
- Richard Wright's globalism / Nicholas T. Rinehart
- Richard Wright's transnationalism and his unwritten magnus opus / Stephan Kuhl
- Tenderness in early Richard Wright / Ernest Julius Mitchell.