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03624aam a2200469 i 4500 001 497F80C82E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 221125s2023 maua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2022045023 020 $a 1625347073 020 $a 9781625347077 020 $a 1625347081 020 $a 9781625347084 035 $a (OCoLC)1351743159 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d AUM $d OCLCO $d MUU $d CQC $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3573.R532 $b Z68 2023 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20221125 100 1 $a Hogue, W. Lawrence, $d 1951- $e author. 245 10 $a "This world is not my home" : $b a critical biography of African American writer Charles Wright / $c W. Lawrence Hogue. 264 1 $a Amherst : $b University of Massachusetts Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xx, 199 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a African American intellectual history 520 $a "In the 1950s, Charles Wright's (1932-2008) star was on the rise. After dropping out of high school and serving in the Korean War, the young Black writer landed in New York, where he was mentored by Norman Mailer, signed a book deal with a leading publisher, and was celebrated by the likes of Langston Hughes and James Baldwin. Over the decades to follow, Wright would lead a peripatetic and at times precarious life, shifting between Tangier, Veracruz, Paris, and New York penning a regular column for the Village Voice, and spending a lifetime dodging creditors, battling addiction and mental health issues, and living off the goodwill of his friends. As W. Lawrence Hogue shows, Wright's innovative fiction stands apart, offering a different vision of outcast Black Americans in the postwar era and using satire to bring agency and humanity to working-class characters. This critical biography-the first devoted to Wright's significant but largely forgotten story-brings new attention to the writer's impressive body of work, in the context of a wild, but troubled, life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 545 0 $a W. Lawrence Hogue is professor emeritus of English at the University of Houston and author of multiple books, including Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-189) and index. 505 0 $a A tumultuous, traumatic Missouri childhood -- The struggle to become a writer in New York City -- An existential reading of The Messenger -- The years in Tangier and the finding of a home -- The publication of The Wig -- Writing in the 1970s and the Village Voice -- Life after Absolutely and the Hodenfields -- Stalled in the 1980s -- Forgotten in the 1990s -- The death and rediscovery of Charles Wright and his fiction. 600 10 $a Wright, Charles, $d 1932-2008. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American authors $v Biography. 650 7 $a African American authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799028 650 7 $a Authors, American $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821764 655 7 $a Biographies $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951- $t "This world is not my home". $d Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023] $z 1685750087 $w (OCoLC)1351787802 $w (OCoLC)1351787802 830 0 $a African American intellectual history 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619010454.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=497F80C82E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search