Richard Wright [electronic resource] : New Readings in the 21st Century /
Craven, A.editor.
This wide-ranging collection of essays 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).
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This wide-ranging collection of essays 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).
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature   .
Fiction.
Ethnicity.
African Americans.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Fiction.
Ethnicity Studies.
African American Culture.