Richard Wright's triangulated South : formation as prelude and preface / Thadious Davis -- Richard Wright's Chicago / Liesl Olson -- New York and Brooklyn / Ayesha Hardison -- Paris and Ailly / William E. Dow -- Globetrotting, 1949-1960 : Wright's cosmopolitan years / John Lowe -- Black masculinity : boyhood and manhood denied in Jim Crow America / Joseph G. Ramsey -- Wright and African American women / Shana A. Russell -- He tried to be a communist : Wright and the Black literary left / Alan M. Wald -- Liberalism and the color line / John K. Young -- 'The same stuff' : Native Son and press coverage of the Robert Nixon trial / Jeannine Marie DeLombard -- Moviegoers and cinematic seers in Wright's fiction / Alice Mikal Craven -- Clothing : un/dressing Richard Wright / Paula Rabinowitz -- 'Defeat measured in the jumping cadences of triumph' : Wright's engagements with blues and jazz / Tim A. Ryan -- Wright and religion / Jamall A. Calloway -- Bandung and third world liberation / Brian Russell Roberts -- Black Paris, hard-boiled paranoia, and the cultural cold war / William J. Maxwell -- Chicago sociology / Christopher Douglas -- 1930s proletarian fiction / Anthony Dawahare -- The blues in print : Wright's 'Blueprint for negro writing' reconsidered / Jesse McCarthy -- Realism and modernism, solipsism and solidarity / Anne MacMaster and Anita DeRouen -- The literary mainstream : Story and the book-of-the-month club / Laurence Cossu-Beaumont -- Wright, psychoanalysis, and Fredric Wertham's reading of Hamlet / Stephan Kuhl -- Wright's Black Boy in context / Robert B. Stepto -- Wright and women authors / Noelle Morrissette -- Existentialism / Stephanie Li -- Wright and Les Temps Modernes / Michael Nowlin -- Wright and postcolonial thought / Joseph Keith -- Modern poetry and haiku / Anita Patterson -- Wright's many lives and the travails of literary biography / Claudine Raynaud -- Contemporary reception / Ian Afflerbach -- Native Son on stage and screen / Anna Shechtman -- Wright's critical reputation, 1960-2019 / Robert J. Butler -- Richard Wright in the era of #BlackLivesMatter : two views / Barbara Foley and Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
Summary:
"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" --Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.