@article{889941,
      recid = {889941},
      author = {Carpio, Glenda,},
      title = {The Cambridge companion to Richard Wright /},
      pages = {xxi, 239 pages ;},
      abstract = {The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright Hailed as the  father of black literature in the twentieth century,  Richard Wright was an iconoclast, an intellectual of  towering stature, whose multidisciplinary erudition rivals  only that of W.E.B. Du Bois. The collection captures  Wright's immense power, which has made him a beacon for  writers across decades, from the civil rights era to today.  Individual essays examine Wright's art as central to his  intellectual life and shed new light on his classic  texts-Native Son, Black Boy. Other essays turn to his short  fiction, and nonfiction as well as lesser- known work in  journalism and poetry, paying particular attention to  manuscripts in Wright's archive - unpublished letters and  novels, plans for multi-volume works-that allow us to see  the depth and expansiveness of his aesthetic and political  vision. Exploring how Wright's expatriation to France  facilitated a broadening of this vision, contributors  challenge the idea that expatriation led to Wright's  artistic decline--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/889941},
}