About this volume, Kimberly Drake -- "Print compels us": Richard Wright's literary protest, Kimberly Drake -- Criticial contexts -- The biographical and historical contexts of Richard Wright's "i tried to be a Communist," Robert C. Evans -- The meaning of rape in Richard Wright's Native Son, Kimberly Drake -- Richard Wright's readers, Konstantina Karageorgos -- Heidegger and Te Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream, Hue Woodson -- Cricital readings -- A child's eye view : humanizing naturalism's horrors in Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children, Jericho Williams -- Revisiting Richard Wright's Native Son as protest novel, Lisa Tomlinson -- Richard Wright's Black Boy : black consciousness, artistic expression, and social justice, Julie Prebel -- Richard Wright's "i tried to be a communist" : its literary effectiveness, Robert C. Evans -- Of maids and men : racial mythologies and gender revelations in Richard Wright's "man of all work," Shana A. Russell -- A first look at Native Son : Richard Wright's uncensored film, Beth Bennett -- Richard Wright's rage : figures of disability in A Father's Law, Kimberly Drake.
Summary:
Critical Insights: Richard Wright explores the work of this groundbreaking author of Black Boy and Native Son, to place the authors body of work in the canon of American literature, the literature of identity and literature of protest.
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