The Cambridge companion to Richard Wright / edited by Glenda R. Carpio.
Carpio, Glenda, editor.
2019
PS3545.R815 Z6127 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
The Cambridge companion to Richard Wright / edited by Glenda R. Carpio.
ISBN
9781108475174 (hardcover)
1108475175 (hardcover)
9781108469234 (paperback)
110846923X (paperback)
Published
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS3545.R815 Z6127 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.52
Summary
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well as lesser- known work in journalism and poetry, paying particular attention to manuscripts in Wright's archive - unpublished letters and novels, plans for multi-volume works-that allow us to see the depth and expansiveness of his aesthetic and political vision.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-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Carpio, Glenda, editor.
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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Introduction: Richard Wright's art and politics / Glenda R. Carpio
The literary ecology of Native son and Black boy / George Hutchinson
Richard Wright's planned incongruity: Black boy as modern living / Jay Garcia
Marxism, Communism, and Richard Wright's Depression-era work / Nathaniel F. Mills
Rhythms of race in Richard Wright's 'Big boy leaves home' / Robert B. Stepto
Sincere art and honest science: Richard Wright and the Chicago School of Sociology / Gene Andrew Jarrett
Outside joke: humorlessness and masculinity in Richard Wright / Kathryn S. Roberts
Freedom in a godless and unhappy world: Wright as outsider / Tommie Shelby
Richard Wright, Paris noir, and transatlantic networks: a book history perspective / Laurence Cossu-Beaumont
Expatriation in Wright's late fiction / Alice Mikal Craven
Richard Wright's globalism / Nicholas T. Rinehart
Richard Wright's transnationalism and his unwritten magnum opus / Stephan Kuhl
Tenderness in early Richard Wright / Ernest Julius Mitchell.

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