Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy
Author: Joyce Ann Joyce
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 160
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Author: Joyce Ann Joyce
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joyce Ann Joyce
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9780877453208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst 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
Author: Keneth Kinnamon
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-11-04
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 1476609128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1438113420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a selection of criticism devoted to the work of African American author Richard Wright.
Author: Hazel Rowley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-02-15
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 0226730387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSkillfully interweaving quotations from Wright's writings, Rowley portrays a man who transcended the times in which he lived and sought to reconcile opposing cultures in his work. In this lively, finely crafted narrative, Wright--passionate, complex, courageous, and flawed--comes vibrantly to life. Two 8-page photo inserts.
Author: Jerry W. Ward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0313355193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Wright is one of the most important African American writers. He is also one of the most prolific. Best known as the author of Native Son, he wrote 7 novels; 2 collections of short fiction; an autobiography; more than 250 newspaper articles, book reviews, and occasional essays; some 4,000 verses; a photo-documentary; and 3 travel books. By attacking the taboos and hypocrisy that other writers had failed to address, he revolutionized American literature and created a disturbing and realistic portrait of the African American experience. This encyclopedia is a guide to his vast and influential body of works.
Author: A. Craven
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-07-18
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 0230340237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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).
Author: Michael Nowlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07-22
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 1108803296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard 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.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0791085856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of America's great African-American writers, Richard Wright achieved critical and popular acclaim with the publication of Native Son, a novel, and Black Boy, an autobiography. Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, Black Boy vividly depicts Wright's journey from a child growing up in the South during the time of Jim Crow segregation laws through his creative and imaginative development as a writer and intellectual. Black Boy is both a unique autobiography and a racial discourse, chronicling Wright's continual fight against prejudice and racism as well as his quest for self-liberation. Against significant odds, Wright became America's first best-selling black author, and Black Boy became an American classic. Its enduring story documents what it means to be a black man, a southerner, and a writer in the United States. Book jacket.
Author: Rebecka Rutledge Fisher
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2014-06-12
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1438449313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature. In Habitations of the Veil, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher uses theory implicit in W. E. B. Du Boiss use of metaphor to draw out and analyze what she sees as a long tradition of philosophical metaphor in African American literature. She demonstrates how Olaudah Equiano, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison each use metaphors to develop a critical discourse capable of overcoming the limits of narrative language to convey their lived experiences. Fishers philosophical investigations open these texts to consideration on ontological and epistemological levels, in addition to those concerned with literary craft and the politics of black identity.