Tenderness in early Richard Wright / Ernest Julius Mitchell. 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.
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well as lesser- known work in journalism and poetry, paying particular attention to manuscripts in Wright's archive - unpublished letters and novels, plans for multi-volume works-that allow us to see the depth and expansiveness of his aesthetic and political vision.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.
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