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Richard Wright : critical perspectives past and present
- Title
- Richard Wright : critical perspectives past and present / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah.
- Publication
- New York : Amistad : Distributed by Penguin USA, c1993.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvi, 476 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Amistad literary series
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-462) and index.
- Contents
- Wright's craft: the short stories / Edward Margolies -- Lawd today: Wright's tricky apprenticeship / William Burrison -- How Native son was born / Keneth Kinnamon -- Uncovering the magical disguise of language: the narrative presence in Richard Wright's Native son / Laura E. Tanner -- The re(a)d and the black / Barbara Johnson -- Celebrity as identity: Native son and mass culture / Ross Pudaloff -- The figurative web of Native son / Joyce Anne Joyce -- The politics of poetics: ideology and narrative form in An American tragedy and Native son / Barbara Foley -- On knowing our place / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Literacy and ascent: Black boy / Rebert Stepto -- Sociology of an existence: Wright and the Chicago School / Carla Cappetti.
- The metamorphosis of Black boy / Janice Thaddeus -- Negating the Negation: the construction of Richard Wright / Abdul R. Janmohamed -- "I do believe him though I know he lies": Lying as genre and metaphor in Black boy / Timothy Dow Adams -- The horror and the glory: Wright's portrait of the artist in Black boy and American hunger / Horace A. Porter -- "Arise, ye pris'ners of starvation": Richard Wright's Black boy and American hunger / Herbert Leibowitz -- Wright's American hunger / Dan McCall -- Christian existentialism in The outsider / Claudia C. Tate -- Drama and denial in The outsider / Mae Henderson -- Richard Wright and the art of non-fiction: stepping out on the stage of the world / John M. Reilly -- Sexual initiation and survival in The long dream / Earl V. Bryant -- Alienation and creativity in the fiction of Richard Wright / Valerie Smith.
- Call Number
- Sc E 95-927
- ISBN
- 9781567430141
- 9781567430271 (pbk.)
- 1567430147
- 1567430279 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 92045757
- OCLC
- 27225221
- Title
- Richard Wright : critical perspectives past and present / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah.
- Imprint
- New York : Amistad : Distributed by Penguin USA, c1993.
- Series
- Amistad literary series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-462) and index.
- Added Author
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.Appiah, Anthony.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 95-927