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Eugene E. Miller
To the end of his life Richard Wright attempted to discover and to express the force between black artistic creation. This fascination with this distinctive Afro-American perception is the key…
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Eight Men Stories
[Wright’s] landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart. - James Baldwin
Here, in these powerful stories…
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Michael Nieto Garcia
Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown, each author prominently displays his race in the title of his autobiography…
Richard Wright
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
Jean Francois Gounard,Joseph J. Rogers
Jean-Francois Gounard’s examination of the writings of Richard Wright and James Baldwin achieves a balance between the fiery Wright and the placid Baldwin.
Critics in this volume reassess the prescient nature of Richard Wright’s mind as well as his life and body of writings, especially those directly concerned with America and its racial…
Abdul R. JanMohamed
A literary exploration of the prevalence of death–its connection to political oppression and its use as salvation–in Richard Wright’s work.
Andrew Warnes
Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) presents an account of crime and racism which remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. Part of the…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Richard Wright’s Bright and Morning Star, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
M. Lynn Weiss
Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright began their careers as marginals within marginalized groups, and their desire to live peacefully in unorthodox marriages led them away from America and into permanent…
Reveals Richard Wright’s poetic vision toward the human world. These essays open up a new territory in Wright studies by tracing the development of Wright’s aesthetic and its relationship to…
This casebook reprints a selection of reviews, criticism, and scholarly analysis of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth (1991).
In this up-to-date new Edition, Wright and his team of expert contributing authors incorporate results of the latest studies on sex offender policies in their critical analyses of current laws…
From dusty rural villages to northern ghettos, 12 Million Black Voices is an unflinching portrayal of the lives that many black Americans lived in the 1930s. It is a testament…
This book is a passionate defense of the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, as opposed to salvation by human merit. The author, Richard Wright, criticizes both Protestant and Catholic…
This children book is about a four year old’s first day at school. The other children exclude him and are mean to him. It is written to help young ones…
Angels On Our Shoulders is a book about a young (age18) combat infantryman’s up-close and personal experiences in the Viet Nam war as it raged on in 1969-1970. The book…
Airway management refers to the maneuvers and medical procedures necessary to restore or preserve a person's breathing or ventilation. It is usually classified into two levels, namely, basic and advanced…
Airway management refers to the assessment, planning and series of medical procedures necessary to restore or preserve a person's breathing or ventilation. It could be necessary for people in a…
A Library of America special publication.
Anglo-Norman Studies has established itself as one of the leading annuals in the field and this index aims to simplify access to the first decade of scholarhip produced by the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
‘Powerful as [Richard Wright] was - is - as a writer, nobody can surpass him in doing certain kinds of writing…
Wrights daughter, Julia, explains that this novel, written shortly before her fathers death, explores many themes … like guilt, the difficult relationship between the generations, [and] the difficulty of being…
Brings together the full texts of Richard Wright’s memoirs and a later novel.
In this gripping and disturbing book, Richard Wright weaves his own childhood recollections with those of Bigger Thomas - a young black man trapped in a life of poverty in…
‘All eight men and all eight stories stand as beautifully, pitifully, terribly true… Here are Richard Wright’s stories of eight men - black men, living at violent odds with the…
The collection captures the methodological and conceptual range of migration research in the discipline of Geography today. This volume also covers a lot of ground geographically and in subject expertise…
Celebrating the centennial of Wright’s birth, each deluxe classic is a special edition with French flaps, rough fronts, and covers printed on uncoated stock.
Features a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman’s death, he is hunted relentlessly, baited…
… originally published in 1945 by Harper & Brothers … The text as restored by the Library of America was published in 1991 in a volume entitled Richard Wright: Later…
‘Wright’s unrelentingly bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, the human heart’ James Baldwin Natural disasters, cold-blooded murders, political…
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Includes three books originally published 1954-1957.
Richard Bruce Wright
Retired university professor James Hillyer barely exists after the death of his beloved daughter in her forties. He locates the woman he fell in love with many years ago on…
Richard G. Wright
Richard Wright analyzes the current state of the criminal justice system in tandem with the experiences of survivors in the aftermath of a violent crime, addressing the lack of cohesion…
Richard B Wright
Richard Lee Wright
A 2nd class boatswain in the U.S. Coast Guard moves his family to Taylor Island Maryland. When he finds a drug dealer in his back yard, he knew he had…
Richard John Wright
An easy to read and funny true to life collection of short stories, many of them asking questions of the reader!
The many ‘adventures’ of this salesman are guaranteed to…
Richard Nathaniel Wright
The story of a young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.
Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue…
