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03373aam a22004338i 4500 001 0E966214DABF11EEBE8532184BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240305010131 008 230925s2024 ilu b 001 0beng 010 $a 2023037876 020 $a 0252045688 020 $a 9780252045684 020 $a 0252087798 020 $a 9780252087790 035 $a (OCoLC)1390876793 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3545 R815 Z64 2024 100 1 $a Dick, Bruce, $d 1953- $e author. 245 10 $a Thunder on the stage : $b the dramatic vision of Richard Wright / $c Bruce Allen Dick. 264 1 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "Richard Wright's dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright's long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright's family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers the theatrical influence on Wright's oeuvre--from his 1930s boxing journalism to his unpublished one-acts on returning Black GIs in WWII to his unproduced pageant honoring Vladimir Lenin. Wright maintained rewarding associations with playwrights, writers, and actors such as Langston Hughes, Theodore Ward, Paul Robeson, and Lillian Hellman, and took particular inspiration from French literary figures like Jean-Paul Sartre. Dick's analysis also illuminates Wright's direct involvement with theater and film, including the performative aspects of his travel writings; the Orson Welles-directed Native Son on Broadway; his acting debut in Native Son's first film version; and his play "Daddy Goodness," a satire of religious charlatans like Father Divine, in the 1930s. Bold and original, Thunder on the Stage offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of a major American writer"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The ethics of acting Jim Crow -- From minstrelsy to Shakespeare to authentic Black theater : playwrights, writers, critics, and intertextual play -- Distant thunder : Wright, the Federal Theatre, and early attempts at writing plays -- Native Son on stage -- Orator, performer, and stage writer pursuing social change -- Boxing Jim Crow -- Reconstructing identity : the influence of Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, and others -- Acting Bigger Thomas -- "Daddy Goodness" : Richard Wright's last lampoon. 600 10 $a Wright, Richard, $d 1908-1960. 600 10 $a Wright, Richard, $d 1908-1960 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Wright, Richard, $d 1908-1960 $x Stage history. 650 0 $a African American authors $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Theater $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Dick, Bruce, 1953- $t Thunder on the stage $d Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2024 $z 9780252055461 $w (DLC) 2023037877 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717031555.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0E966214DABF11EEBE8532184BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search