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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, Amritjit, author of foreword.

Contributor:

Craven, Alice Mikal, editor.

Dow, William (William E.), editor.

Nakamura, Yoko, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Criticism and interpretation.

Wright, Richard.

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Political and social views.

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.

Race in literature.

Black people in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.

Political and social views.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 278 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2014.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1623562317

9781623562311

OCLC:

876370654

Publisher Number:

99959302748