Critical Essays on Richard Wright's Native Son

Critical Essays on Richard Wright's Native Son
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Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105022345974
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Synopsis Critical Essays on Richard Wright's Native Son by : Keneth Kinnamon

This is a collection of critical essays on Richard Wright's "Native Son" by Edwin Berry Burgum, Donald B. Gibson, James Nagel, Paul N. Siegel, James A. Miller, Charles Scruggs, and other writers.

Native Son

Native Son
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Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Total Pages : 528
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ISBN-10 : 0060929804
ISBN-13 : 9780060929800
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Native Son by : Richard A. Wright

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

The Man Who Lived Underground

The Man Who Lived Underground
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9780062971463
ISBN-13 : 0062971468
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Man Who Lived Underground by : Richard Wright

New York Times Bestseller One of the Best Books of 2021 by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and Esquire, and one of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Books of the Year “The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any ‘greatest writers of the 20th century’ list that doesn’t start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright’s most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.” —Kiese Laymon A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and violence in America by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would see publication in Wright's lifetime only in drastically condensed and truncated form, and ultimately be included in the posthumous short story collection Eight Men. Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author’s estate, the full text of the work that meant more to Wright than any other (“I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration”) is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, “Memories of My Grandmother.” Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson, contributes an afterword.

Richard Wright in Context

Richard Wright in Context
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 652
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ISBN-10 : 9781108803298
ISBN-13 : 1108803296
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Richard Wright in Context by : Michael Nowlin

Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. Best known as the trailblazing, bestselling author of Native Son and Black Boy, he established himself as an experimental literary intellectual in France who creatively drew on some of the leading ideas of his time - Marxism, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism - to explore the sources and meaning of racism both in the United States and worldwide. Richard Wright in Context gathers thirty-three new essays by leading scholars relating Wright's writings to biographical, regional, social, literary, and intellectual contexts essential to understanding them. It explores the places that shaped his life and enabled his literary destiny, the social and cultural contexts he both observed and immersed himself in, and the literary and intellectual contexts that made him one the most famous Black writers in the world at mid-century.

Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]

Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 534
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ISBN-10 : 9780063028593
ISBN-13 : 006302859X
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] by : Richard Wright

A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson. When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Yet from 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” Wright’s once controversial, now celebrated autobiography measures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a Black boy. Enduring poverty, hunger, fear, abuse, and hatred while growing up in the woods of Mississippi, Wright lied, stole, and raged at those around him—whites indifferent, pitying, or cruel and Blacks resentful of anyone trying to rise above their circumstances. Desperate for a different way of life, he headed north, eventually arriving in Chicago, where he forged a new path and began his career as a writer. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to “hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo.” Seventy-five years later, his words continue to reverberate. “To read Black Boy is to stare into the heart of darkness,” John Edgar Wideman writes in his foreword. “Not the dark heart Conrad searched for in Congo jungles but the beating heart I bear.” One of the great American memoirs, Wright’s account is a poignant record of struggle and endurance—a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time.

Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy

Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy
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Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 0877453209
ISBN-13 : 9780877453208
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy by : Joyce Ann Joyce

First published (hardcover) in 1986. Joyce focuses specially on the stylistic characteristics of Wright's most successful novel to show how his language merges with his subject matter to illuminate Native son as a tragedy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Savage Holiday

Savage Holiday
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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781789129885
ISBN-13 : 1789129885
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Savage Holiday by : Richard Wright

Savage Holiday, first published in 1954 by noted American author Richard Wright, is a tense, well-written psychological thriller about Erskine Fowler, an insurance executive forced into early retirement, who, over the course of a bizarre weekend, is responsible for the accidental death of his neighbor’s young son. Tragic consequences follow as Fowler attempts to redeem himself and is forced to question his own life, as events spiral out-of-control to their inevitable conclusion.

Richard Wright's Native Son

Richard Wright's Native Son
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9780791096253
ISBN-13 : 0791096254
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Richard Wright's Native Son by : Harold Bloom

Richard Wright is one of the greatest African-American writers of the 20th century. His masterpiece Native Son is analyzed in this volume of essays.

Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son

Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son
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Publisher : Modern Language Assn of Amer
Total Pages : 141
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ISBN-10 : 0873527399
ISBN-13 : 9780873527392
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son by : James A. Miller

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

Eight Men

Eight Men
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9780061450181
ISBN-13 : 0061450189
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Eight Men by : Richard Wright

Here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape once again. Each of the eight stories in Eight Men focuses on a black man at violent odds with a white world, reflecting Wright's views about racism in our society and his fascination with what he called "the struggle of the individual in America." These poignant, gripping stories will captivate all those who loved Black Boy and Native Son.