Richard Wright in context / edited by Michael Nowlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nowlin, Michael Everett, 1962- editor.

Series:

Literature in context.

Literature in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.

Wright, Richard.

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

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

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

African American authors--Biography.

African American authors.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 366 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. Best known as the trailblazing, bestselling author of Native Son and Black Boy, he established himself as an experimental literary intellectual in France who creatively drew on some of the leading ideas of his time - Marxism, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism - to explore the sources and meaning of racism both in the United States and worldwide. Richard Wright in Context gathers thirty-three new essays by leading scholars relating Wright's writings to biographical, regional, social, literary, and intellectual contexts essential to understanding them. It explores the places that shaped his life and enabled his literary destiny, the social and cultural contexts he both observed and immersed himself in, and the literary and intellectual contexts that made him one the most famous Black writers in the world at mid-century.

Contents:

The Jim Crow South / Thadious Davis

Chicago / Liesl Olson

New York and Brooklyn / Ayesha Hardison

Paris and Ailly / William E. Dow

Globetrotting, 1949-1960 / John Lowe

Black masculinity : boyhood and manhood denied in Jim Crow America / Joseph G. Ramsey

Wright and African American women / Shana A. Russell

He tried to be a communist : Wright and the Black literary left / Alan M. Wald

Liberalism and the color line / John K. Young

'The same stuff' : Native son and press coverage of the Robert Nixon trial / Jeannine Marie DeLombard

Moviegoer and cinematic seers / Alice Mikal Craven

Fashion : un/dressing Wright / Paula Rabinowitz

'Defeat measured in the jumping cadences of triumph' : Wright's engagement with blues and jazz / Tim A. Ryan

Wright and religion / Jamall A. Calloway

Bandung and third world liberation / Brian Russell Roberts

Black Paris, hard-boiled paranoia, and the cultural cold war / William J. Maxwell

Chicago sociology / Christopher Douglas

1930s proletarian fiction / Anthony Dawahare

The blues in print : Wright's 'Blueprint for negro writing' reconsidered / Jesse McCarthy

Realism and modernism, solipsism and solidarity / Anne MacMaster and Anita DeRouen

The literary mainstream : story and the book-of-the-month club / Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

Wright, psychoanalysis, and Fredric Wertham's reading of Hamlet / Stephan Kuhl

Wright's Black boy in context / Robert B. Stepto

Wright and women authors / Noelle Morrissette

Existentialism / Stephanie Li

Wright and Les temps modernes / Michael Nowlin

Wright and postcolonial thought / Joseph Keith

Modern poetry and haiku / Anita Patterson

Wright's many lives and the travails of literary biography / Claudine Raynaud

Contemporary reception / Ian Afflerbach

Native son on stage and screen / Anna Shechtman

Wright's critical reputation, 1960-2019 / Robert J. Butler

Richard Wright in the era of #BlackLivesMatter : two views / Barbara Foley and Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jul 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-80329-6

1-108-80356-3

1-108-77352-4

OCLC:

1257315340