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Title:
Richard Wright in a post-racial imaginary / edited by Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow ; associate editor, Yoko Nakamura ; with a foreword by Amritjit Singh.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xi, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Wright, Richard,--1908-1960--Criticism and interpretation.
Wright, Richard,--1908-1960--Political and social views.
Race in literature.
Blacks in literature.
African Americans in literature
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Other Authors:
Craven, Alice Mikal, editor.
Dow, William (William E.), editor.
Nakamura, Yoko, editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Wright as global intellectual and racial reformer. James Smethurst: After modernism: Richard Wright interprets the black belt -- Cynthia Tolentino: Sociological interests, racial reform: Richard Wright's intellectual of color -- Mark Mvé Bekale: The Negro intellectual and the tragic sense of hybridity: a study in postcolonial existentialism -- Anthony Dawahare: Richard Wright's Native son and the dialectics of black experience -- The pursuit of sovereignty in Wright's political and artistic odyssey. Laurence Cossu-Beaumont: Richard Wright and his editors: a work under the influence from the signifyin(g) rebel to the exiled intellectual -- Shoshana Milgram Knapp: Recontextualizing Richard Wright's The outsider: Hugo, Dostoevsky, Max Eastman, and Ayn Rand -- Barbara Foley: A dramatic picture of woman from feudalism to fascism: Richard Wright's Black hope -- Wright's other destinies: gothicism and the neo-baroque. Charles Scruggs: Forged in injustice: the gothic motif in the fiction of Ernest Hemingway and Richard Wright -- William E. Dow: Pulp gothicism in Richard Wright's The outsider -- Michel Feith: Working the underground seam: Richard Wright's The man who lived underground in the light of Percival Everett's Zulus -- Richard Wright's Sweet airs: experiments with performance genres. Bruce Allen Dick: Forgotten chapter: Richard Wright, playwrights, and the modern theater -- Steven C. Tracy: A Wright to sing the blues: King Joe's punch -- Transnational shifts: silence and sentiment. Alice Mikal Craven: Richard Wright's Island of silence in the long dream -- Sudhi Rajiv: Expanding metaphors of marginalization: Richard Wright, Sharankumar Limbale, and a post-caste imaginary -- Sandy Alexandre: Culmination in miniature: late style and the essence of Richard Wright's haiku.
ISBN:
1623562317 (HB)
9781623562311 (HB)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)876370654
LCCN:
2014006808
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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