The World of Richard Wright

by Fabre, Michel

• ISBN13: 9780878052585
• ISBN10: 0878052585
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1985-10-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Wide-ranging essays in which Wright's biographer probes the career, ideology, complex life, & achievements of America's premier black writer. "A major contribution to Wright studies"--Keneth Kinnamon. "Full of insights into cultural history & radical politics, race relations, & literary connections...sets a high standard for scholarship to come"--Werner Sollors.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Wright's First Hundred Books	p. 12
Black Cat and White Cat: Wright's Gothic and the Influence of Poe	p. 27
From Revolutionary Poetry to Haiku	p. 34
Beyond Naturalism?	p. 56
Wright's South	p. 77
From Tabloid to Myth: "The Man Who Lived Underground"	p. 93
"The Man Who Killed a Shadow": a Study in Compulsion	p. 108
Fantasies and Style in Wright's Fiction	p. 122
Wright's Image of France	p. 144
Wright and the French Existentialists	p. 158
Wright's Exile	p. 176
Wright, Negritude, and African Writing	p. 192
Appendixes	p. 215
Index	p. 263
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