Richard Wright's travel writings
Subtitle: new reflections
By: edited by Virginia Whatley Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Virginia Whatley.
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.; Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Foreign countries -- History.; Travel writing -- History -- 20th century.; Americans -- Foreign countries -- History.
Description: "Attracted to remote lands by his interest in the postcolonial struggle, Richard Wright became one of the few African Americans of his time to engage in travel writing. He went to emerging nations not as a sightseer but as a student of their cultures, learning the politics and the processes of social transformation." "Written by multinational scholars, this collection of essays exploring Wright's travel writings shows how in his hands the genre of travel writing resisted, adapted, or modified the forms and formats practice by white authors. Enhanced by nine photographs taken by Wright during his travels, the essays focus on each of Wright's four separate narratives as well as upon his unfinished book and reveal how Wright drew on such non-Western influences as the African slave narrative and Asian literature of protest and resistance."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction xi; title: Essays on Black Power (1954); title: Richard Wright's Black Power:; title: Colonial Politics and the Travel Narrative 3; title: S Shankar; title: Gazing Through the Screen:; title: Richard Wright's Africa 20; title: Ngwarsungu Chiwengo; title: "No Street Numbers in Accra":; title: Richard Wright's African Cities 45; title: Jack B. Moore; title: Essays on The Color Curtain (1956) 6i; title: The Color Curtain:; title: Richard Wright's Journey into Asia 63; title: Yoshinobu Hakutani; title: Richard Wright's Passage to Indonesia:; title: The Travel Writer/Narrator as; title: Participant/Observer of Anti-Colonial; title: Imperatives in The Color Curtain 78; title: Virginia Whatley Smith; title: Essays on Pagan Spain (1957) 17; title: Richard Wright as Traveler/Ethnographer:; title: The Conundrums of Pagan Spain 119; title: John Lowe; title: Wright, Hemingway, and the Bullfight:; title: An Aficionado's View 157; title: Keinth (innamon; title: The Good Women, Bad Women, Prostitutes and; title: Essay on "French West Africa"; title: (c.1959) '77; title: "French West Africa":; title: Behind the Scenes with Richard Wight,; title: the Travel Witer 79; title: Virginia Whasley Smith.