Richard Wright's travel writings : new reflections / edited by Virginia Whatley Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Virginia Whatley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Travel--Foreign countries--History.

African Americans.

Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, American.

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Knowledge--Foreign countries.

Wright, Richard.

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University of Mississippi Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Attracted to remote lands by his interest in the postcolonial struggle, Richard Wright (1908-1960) became one of the few African Americans of his time to engage in travel writing. He went to emerging nations not as a sightseer but as a student of their cultures, learning the politics and the processes of social transformation. When Wright fled from the United States in 1946 to live as an expatriate in Paris, he was exposed to intellectual thoughts and challenges that transcended his social and political education in America. Three events broadened his world view- his introduction to French exi

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction xi

Essays on Black Power (1954)

Richard Wright's Black Power:

Colonial Politics and the Travel Narrative 3

S Shankar

Gazing Through the Screen:

Richard Wright's Africa 20

Ngwarsungu Chiwengo

"No Street Numbers in Accra":

Richard Wright's African Cities 45

Jack B. Moore

Essays on The Color Curtain (1956) 6i

The Color Curtain:

Richard Wright's Journey into Asia 63

Yoshinobu Hakutani

Richard Wright's Passage to Indonesia:

The Travel Writer/Narrator as

Participant/Observer of Anti-Colonial

Imperatives in The Color Curtain 78

Virginia Whatley Smith

Essays on Pagan Spain (1957) 17

Richard Wright as Traveler/Ethnographer:

The Conundrums of Pagan Spain 119

John Lowe

Wright, Hemingway, and the Bullfight:

An Aficionado's View 157

Keinth (innamon

The Good Women, Bad Women, Prostitutes and

Essay on "French West Africa"

(c.1959) '77

"French West Africa":

Behind the Scenes with Richard Wight,

the Travel Witer 79

Virginia Whasley Smith.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62103-688-X

1-60473-771-9

OCLC:

784885918