Richard Wright's art of tragedy / Joyce Ann Joyce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joyce, Joyce Ann, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American men in literature.

Tragic, The, in literature.

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Native son.

Wright, Richard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this first full-length study of Native Son, Joyce Ann Joyce provides a stylistic and thematic reading of one of the most important works of Black American literature, demonstrating how Wright's exquisite use of language merges with his subject to create an American tragedy. Because many scholars have approached the novel from naturalistic and existential perspectives, Joyce devotes her first chapter to a discussion of the novel's critical history. She compares previous criticism to her own perspective of the novel as tragedy, describing the features shared by each as well as their points of

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. The Critical Background and a New Perspective; 2. Setting and Structure: The Cosmology of Bigger's World; 3. Characterization and Point of View: The Tragic Hero; 4. Technique: The Figurative Web; 5. The Unity of Book 3: A Synthesis of the Theme; Epilogue; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781587291210

1587291215

OCLC:

44963057