Understanding Richard Wright's Black boy
Subtitle: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
By: Robert Felgar.
Series: The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. -- Sources.; Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Childhood and youth -- Sources.; Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Sources.; African American authors -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Sources.; African American youth -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Sources.; African Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Sources.; African American men -- Intellectual life.
Other titles: Richard Wright's Black boy
Description: In Black Boy, Richard Wright triumphs over an ugly, racist world by fashioning an inspiring, powerful, beautiful, and fictionalized autobiography. To help students understand and appreciate his story in the cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary. The selection of documents is designed to place in sharp relief the issue of pervasive racism in American society.

Documents include excerpts from other autobiographies and a novel, legal documents, speeches, an interview, an anthropological study, magazine and newspaper articles, and contemporary editorials. Most of the documents are available in no other printed form.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-162) and index.