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Deborah Mutnick
No Race, No Country presents a major reconsideration of the breakthrough African American author Richard Wright's work and life. It challenges standard evaluations of his reputation as an autodidact, his…
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Richard Wright
This mongraph covers Wright’s major work to date. Working predominantly with paint and gold leaf directly on walls, his paintings are often short-lived, only surviving the length of an exhibition…
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Salem Press
Explores the work of the groundbreaking author of Black Boy and Native Son, to place the author’s body of work in the canon of American literature, the literature of identity…
Hazel Rowley
Consistently an outsider - a child of the fundamentalist South, a self-taught intellectual, a black man married to a white woman - Richard Wright nonetheless became the unparalleled voice of…
William Aldis Wright
"The Tragedy of King Richard the Third" by William Shakespeare is a gripping historical drama that follows the ruthless rise and tragic fall of Richard III, the last Plantagenet king…
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Jonathan Leathwood, Richard Wright
An invaluable addition to the immensely successful Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides, this book brings exciting new insights into the study and performance of the classical guitar repertoire.
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Includes a selection of Richard Wright’s haiku on pages 153-171.
Richard Wright is one of the most important African American writers. By attacking the taboos and hypocrisy that other writers had failed to address, he revolutionized American literature and created…
Michel Fabre
Richard Wright, the Mississippi-born black writer, saw himself as an outsider between two cultures, a man searching. In these twelve essays, Michel Fabre follows Wright’s search in an investigation of…
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Will Bradley, Martin Clark
Featuring essays from leading cultural voices, Richard Wright s second Gagosian book provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated overview of the Turner Prize winning artist s work from 2010 to…
Collects some fifty interviews, many of which are little known in the United States because they appeared in non-English European periodicals and newspapers. This collection reveals a serious, often didactic…
Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. This book gathers thirty-three new essays by an international group of scholars relating…
Robert J. Butler
His writings reflect his experiences growing up in the poverty and racial strife of the South, and his thoughts on major social issues. This volume traces the critical reception of…
Robert Felgar
Examining Richard Wright’s autobiographical and fictional works, this study also serves students of literature and social history as it explores the themes of racism and all types of institutionalized oppression…
William Miller
As boy in the segregated South, author Richard Wright was determined to borrow books from the public library. His story illustrates the power of determination in turning a dream into…
This book is affords us the opportunity to rediscover Richard Wright and reexamine his work and its continuing significance in light of our contemporary situation. Moreover, the collection allows us…
Black Boy is a firsthand account of what it was like to come-of-age in the South during the Jim Crow era. Richard Wright’s story is an emotional journey through violence…
Harold Bloom
Richard Wright’s works are universally acknowledged as a starting point for black literature in contemporary America. Critics speak of the author as a pioneer, a man of rare courage. This…
In the history of Richard Wright, perhaps more than with other writers, a knowledge of what he actually read, and of what authors he preferred, is essential in explaining his…
William Miller,Gregory Christie
Richard Wright and the library card tells how the black writer developed his love for storytelling by the tales told to him as a child in Memphis from older members…
This Companion will be used in undergraduate and graduate courses on African American studies and American literature. It will appeal to those wishing to examine black literature in relationship to…
In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary analyses Wright’s work in relation…
In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. This book analyses Wright’s work in relation to contemporary racial and…
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. The Politics of Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for…
Duchess, Ph.D. Harris
In 1940 Richard Wright wrote his most famous book, Native Son. It was the first best-selling novel by an African American writer. Because the influence of this novel was so…
In The Politics of Richard Wright, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author.
Miller Christine William
This is the true story of the renowned African American author Richard Wright and his determination to borrow books from the public library that turned him away because of his…
Thomas Wright, Alice Kyteler, Richard De Ledrede
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy , discovered the haiku in the last eighteen…
David Stehling
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: The motif of blindness is an idea…
Bigger Thomas, a young man living in 1930s Chicago, takes a job with a wealthy white family, the Daltons. After a night of drinking with her boyfriend, Mary, the Dalton’s…
Keneth Kinnamon
Covers Richard Wrights 1940 novel Native Son.
In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, authors Kiuchi and Hakutani document the life in letters of one of the great African American writers of the twentieth century. Entries are documented…
Maurene J. Hinds
Credited with developing the protest novel, Richard Wright became the first best-selling African-American writer of the twentieth century. Regarded by many as a masterpiece, his book Black Boy took the…
This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Richard Wright’s Native Son, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
Written by multinational scholars, this collection of essays exploring Richard Wright’s travel writings shows how in his hands the genre of travel writing resisted, adapted, or modified the forms and…
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…
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…
