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The World of Richard Wright
By Michel Fabre
276 pages
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- University Press of Mississippi
- Place of publication:
- Jackson, MS
- Publication year:
- 1985
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Synopsis
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.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page *
- Contents *
- Introduction 3
- Wright's First Hundred Books 12
- Black Cat and White Cat: Wright's Gothic and the Influence of Poe 27
- From Revolutionary Poetry to Haiku 34
- Beyond Naturalism? 56
- Wright's South 77
- From Tabloid to Myth: "The Man Who Lived Underground" 93
- "The Man Who Killed a Shadow": A Study in Compulsion 108
- Fantasies and Style in Wright's Fiction 122
- Wright's Image of France 144
- Wright and the French Existentialists 158
- Wright's Exile 176
- Wright, Negritude, and African Writing 192
- Appendixes 215
- Title Page *
- Contents *
- Introduction 3
- Wright's First Hundred Books 12
- Black Cat and White Cat: Wright's Gothic and the Influence of Poe 27
- From Revolutionary Poetry to Haiku 34
- Beyond Naturalism? 56
- Wright's South 77
- From Tabloid to Myth: "The Man Who Lived Underground" 93
- "The Man Who Killed a Shadow": A Study in Compulsion 108
- Fantasies and Style in Wright's Fiction 122
- Wright's Image of France 144
- Wright and the French Existentialists 158
- Wright's Exile 176
- Wright, Negritude, and African Writing 192
- Appendixes 215
- Index 263