The Cambridge companion to Richard Wright / edited by Glenda R. Carpio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carpio, Glenda, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to authors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Wright, Richard.

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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. This 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 and Black Boy. Other essays turn to his short fiction, and non-fiction as well as his lesser-known work in journalism and poetry, paying particular attention to manuscripts in Wright's archive - unpublished letters and novels, plans for multivolume works - that allow us to see the depth and expansiveness of his aesthetic and political vision.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.

Contents:

Introduction: Richard Wright's art and politics / Glenda R. Carpio

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 magnus opus / Stephan Kuhl

Tenderness in early Richard Wright / Ernest Julius Mitchell.

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ISBN:

9781108567510

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