The Critical Response To Richard Wright

Author : Robert Butler
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015035741175

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The Critical Response to Richard Wright by Robert Butler Pdf

Richard Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important African-American writers and as a significant 20th-century author. With the publication of Native Son in 1940, Wright established his enduring reputation as a man of letters. With the immense critical success of Native Son, Wright went on to author Black Boy, The Outsider, and Eight Men. 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 Wright's major works, from the publication of Native Son to the present day. An introductory chapter overviews the critical response to his writings, while two biographical chapters discuss his writings in relation to his life. Sections are then devoted to Native Son, Black Boy, and The Outsider. Each of these sections presents reviews and articles reflecting the best criticism of Wright's works. A final section, Richard Wright Today, offers contemporary assessments of Wright's reputation, as well as fascinating discussions of the recent Library of America editions of his works.

Author : Robert Butler
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313288609

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The Critical Response to Richard Wright by Robert Butler Pdf

Richard Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important African-American writers and as a significant 20th-century author. With the publication of Native Son in 1940, Wright established his enduring reputation as a man of letters. With the immense critical success of Native Son, Wright went on to author Black Boy, The Outsider, and Eight Men. 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 Wright's major works, from the publication of Native Son to the present day. An introductory chapter overviews the critical response to his writings, while two biographical chapters discuss his writings in relation to his life. Sections are then devoted to Native Son, Black Boy, and The Outsider. Each of these sections presents reviews and articles reflecting the best criticism of Wright's works. A final section, Richard Wright Today, offers contemporary assessments of Wright's reputation, as well as fascinating discussions of the recent Library of America editions of his works.

Author : John Marsden Reilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003963829

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Richard Wright by John Marsden Reilly Pdf

Author : Keneth Kinnamon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476609126

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Richard Wright by Keneth Kinnamon Pdf

African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.

Author : Ana Fraile,Ana María Fraile Marcos
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042022973

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Richard Wright's Native Son by Ana Fraile,Ana María Fraile Marcos Pdf

An Afro-Americanist, Ana M Fraile currently teaches postcolonial literatures at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her more recent publications include the book Planteamientos esteticos y politicos en la obra de Zora Neale Hurston (2003); chapters about Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, Alice Walker and Joy Kogawa in the Rodopi series Perspectives on Modern Literature, edited by Michael Meyer; and journal articles on African American women writers such as Toni Morrison. She is also the editor of bilingual (English/ Spanish) editions on the works of Jacob A. Riis, Como vive la otra mitad, Langston Hughes, Oscuridad en Espana, and Zora Neale Hurston, Mi gente Mi gente , and the co-editor of The Impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms(1982-2002): European Perspectives. She has been the recepient of numerous grants and scholarships, among which are the Fulbright research grant, and several scholarships granted by the Canadian Government in the framework of the Foreign Affairs Faculty Enrichment Program.

Author : Arnold Rampersad
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015038020015

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Richard Wright by Arnold Rampersad Pdf

A collection of Critical Essays reflecting both older and newer perspectives. Will also contain an introduction by the editor (a respected scholar in the field), a chronology of the author's life, and an annotated bibliography.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781438113425

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Richard Wright, New Edition by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a selection of criticism devoted to the work of African American author Richard Wright.

Author : Jerry W. Ward,Robert J. Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313355196

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The Richard Wright Encyclopedia by Jerry W. Ward,Robert J. Butler Pdf

Richard Wright is one of the most important African American writers. He is also one of the most prolific. Best known as the author of Native Son, he wrote 7 novels; 2 collections of short fiction; an autobiography; more than 250 newspaper articles, book reviews, and occasional essays; some 4,000 verses; a photo-documentary; and 3 travel books. By attacking the taboos and hypocrisy that other writers had failed to address, he revolutionized American literature and created a disturbing and realistic portrait of the African American experience. This encyclopedia is a guide to his vast and influential body of works.

Author : William E. Dow,Alice Mikal Craven,Yoko Nakamura
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623566258

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Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary by William E. Dow,Alice Mikal Craven,Yoko Nakamura Pdf

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 to contemporary racial and social issues, bringing voices of established and emergent Wright scholars into dialogue with each other. The essays in this volume show how Wright's best work asks central questions about national alienation as well as about international belonging and the trans-national gaze. Race is here assumed as a superimposed category, rather than a biological reality, in keeping with recent trends in African-American studies. Wright's fiction and almost all of his non-fiction lift beyond the mainstays of African-American culture to explore the potentialities and limits of black trans-nationalism. Wright's trans-native status, his perpetual "outsidedness" mixed with the "essential humanness" of his activist and literary efforts are at the core of the innovative approaches to his work included here.

Author : Yoshinobu Hakutani
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011347245

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Critical Essays on Richard Wright by Yoshinobu Hakutani Pdf

Author : A. Craven
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230340237

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Richard Wright by A. Craven Pdf

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 and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently published A Father ' s Law (2008).

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African American men in literature
ISBN : 9780791096253

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Richard Wright's Native Son by Harold Bloom Pdf

Richard Wright is one of the greatest African-American writers of the 20th century. His masterpiece Native Son is analyzed in this volume of essays.

Author : Hazel Rowley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226730387

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Richard Wright by Hazel Rowley Pdf

Skillfully interweaving quotations from Wright's writings, Rowley portrays a man who transcended the times in which he lived and sought to reconcile opposing cultures in his work. In this lively, finely crafted narrative, Wright--passionate, complex, courageous, and flawed--comes vibrantly to life. Two 8-page photo inserts.

Author : Virginia Whatley Smith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496807229

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Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad by Virginia Whatley Smith Pdf

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 dynamics. This edited collection offers new readings and understandings of the particular America that became Wright's focus at the beginning of his career and was still prominent in his mind at the end. Virginia Whatley Smith's edited collection examines Wright's fixation with America at home and from abroad: his oppression by, rejection of, conflict with, revolts against, and flight from America. Other people have written on Wright's revolutionary heroes, his difficulties with the FBI, and his works as a postcolonial provocateur; but none have focused singly on his treatment of America. Wherever Wright traveled, he always positioned himself as an African American as he compared his experiences to those at hand. However, as his domestic settlements changed to international residences, Wright's craftsmanship changed as well. To convey his cultural message, Wright created characters, themes, and plots that would expose arbitrary and whimsical American policies, oppressive rules which would invariably ensnare Wright's protagonists and sink them more deeply into the quagmire of racial subjugation as they grasped for a fleeting moment of freedom. Smith's collection brings to the fore new ways of looking at Wright, particularly his post-Native Son international writings. Indeed, no critical interrogations have considered the full significance of Wright's masterful crime fictions. In addition, the author's haiku poetry complements the fictional pieces addressed here, reflecting Wright's attitude toward America as he, near the end of his life, searched for nirvana--his antidote to American racism.

Author : Richard Kopley
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814746985

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Prospects for the Study of American Literature by Richard Kopley Pdf

What can there possibly be left to say about . . .? This common litany, resonant both in and outside of academia, reflects a growing sense that the number of subjects and authors appropriate for literary study is rapidly becoming exhausted. Take heart, admonishes Richard Kopley in this dynamic new anthology--for this is decidedly not the case. While generations of literary study have unquestionably covered much ground in analyzing canonical writers, many aspects of even the most well-known authors--both their lives and their work-- remain underexamined. Among the authors discussed are T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry James, Willa Cather, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain.