Title: Bigger Thomas
Description: Introduction / Harold Bloom - Critical Extracts: James Baldwin / Irving Howe / Ralph Ellision / Houston A. Baker, Jr. / Sherley Anne Williams / Charles T. Davis / Nina Kressner Cobb / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / Charles Johnson -- How "Bigger" Was Born / Richard Wright -- Native Son and Three Kinds of Revolution / Edward Margolies -- Bessie's Blues / Edward A. Watson -- Native Son / Kenneth Kinnamon -- Richard Wright and Native Son: Not Guilty / Dorothy S. Redden -- Bigger Thoms: The Symbolic Negro and the Discrete Human Entity / Charles De Arman -- Native Son and Mass Culture /. Ross Pudaloff -- The Function of Violence in Native Son / Robert James Butler -- Wright's Crime and Punishment / Tony Magistrale -- The Narrative Presence in Native Son / Laura E. Tanner -- Alienation and Creativity in Native Son / Valerie Smith -- Misogyny and Appropriation in Native Son /. Alan W. France.
Subjects: African American men in literature, Bigger Thomas (Fictitious character), Aufsatzsammlung, African Americans in literature, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Wright, richard, 1908-1960, Thomas, bigger (fictitious character)