Richard Wright : new readings in the 21st century /

Richard Wright : new readings in the 21st century /

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Gathering some of the most important Wright scholarship in the world, along with perspectives from emerging Wright critics, Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century, explores new themes and theoretical orientations.€ Essays center on modernism, racism and spatial dimensions, the transnationa...

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Corporate Authors: Palgrave Connect (Online service), ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Craven, Alice Mikal, Dow, William (William E.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Signs of race.
Subjects:
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Criticism and interpretation.
African Americans in literature.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; A. Mikal Craven & W.E. Dow
  • PART I: '(RE)PLACING RICHARD WRIGHT'
  • From New Chicago Renaissance from Wright to Fair Modern and Post-Modern Eden: Richard Wright; R. Baxter Miller
  • Wright Among the 'G-Men': How the FBI Framed Paris Noir; W.J. Maxwell
  • A Father's Law, 1950s Masculinity, and Richard Wright's Agony Over Integration; L. Cassuto
  • Seeking Salvation in a Naturalistic Universe: Richard Wright's Use of His Southern Religious Background in Black Boy (American Hunger); R.J. Butler
  • PART II: 'TAKING SIDES: RACISM AND SPATIAL DIMENSIONS'
  • 'White People to Either Side': Native Son and the Poetics of Space; I. Soto
  • Becoming Richard Wright: Space and the WPA; T.M. Davis
  • PART III: 'WRIGHT: PULP AND MEDIA, REALITY AND FICTION'
  • Savage Holiday: Documentary Noir and True Crime in 12 Million Black Voices; P. Rabinowitz
  • A Father's Law and Black Metropolis: Intellectual Growth and Literary Vision; J.A. Joyce
  • A Queer Finale: Sympathy and Privacy in Wright's A Father's Law; J.C. Charles
  • PART IV: 'WRIGHT: NEW COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORKS'
  • Changing Texts: Censorship, 'Reality' and Fiction in Native Son; C. Raynaud
  • 'The Astonishing Humanity': Domestic Discourses in the Friendship and Fiction of Richard Wright and Carson McCullers; J. Ulin
  • When Wright Bid McKay Break Bread: Tracing Black Transnational Geneaology; G. Holcomb
  • The Political Art of Wright's 'Fire and Cloud'; R. Shulman
  • Richard Wright and the CircumCaribbean; J. Lowe.
  • From new Chicago renaissance from Wright to fair : modern and post-modern Eden: Richard Wright / R. Baxter Miller
  • Wright among the "G-Men" : how the FBI framed Paris Noir / William J. Maxwell
  • A Father's Law, 1950s masculinity, and Richard Wright's agony over integration / Leonard Cassuto
  • Seeking salvation in a naturalistic universe : Richard Wright's use of his southern religious background in Black Boy (American Hunger) / Robert J. Butler
  • "White People to Either Side" : Native Son and the poetics of space / Isabelle Soto
  • Becoming Richard Wright : space and the WPA / Thadious M. Davis
  • Savage Holiday : documentary noir and true crime in 12 million black voices / Paula Rabinowitz
  • A Father's Law and Black Metropolis : intellectual growth and literary vision / Joyce Ann Joyce
  • A queer finale : sympathy and privacy in Wright's A Father's Law / John C. Charles
  • Changing texts : censorship, "Reality" and fiction in Native Son / Claudine Raynaud
  • "The Astonishing Humanity" : domestic discourses in the friendship and fiction of Richard Wright and Carson McCullers / Julieann Ulin
  • When Wright bid McKay break bread : tracing black transnational geneaology / Gary Holcomb
  • The political art of Wright's "Fire and Cloud" / Robert Shulman
  • Richard Wright and the circumCaribbean / John Lowe.