Richard Wright's Black boy (American hunger) : a casebook
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Richard Wright's Black boy (American hunger) : a casebook
(Casebooks in criticism)
Oxford University Press, 2003
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-210)
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780195157710
Description
This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of Black Boy written by W.E.B. Du Bois, Lionel Trilling, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison, and eight critical essays. These essays address a range of topics including the circumstances of the book's original publication in 1945; the relationship between the novel and Wright's actual biography; the African-American autobiographical tradition; the influences of various writers and literary movements on Black Boy; and the impact of African-American vernacular and oral performance on Wright's autobiography.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195157727
Description
This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of Black Boy written by W.E.B. Du Bois, Lionel Trilling, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison, and eight critical essays. These essays address a range of topics including the circumstances of the book's original publication in 1945; the relationship between the novel and Wright's actual
biography; the African-American autobiographical tradition; the influences of various writers and literary movements on Black Boy; and the impact of African-American vernacular and oral performance on Wright's autobiography.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Interview
1: Charles J. Rolo: This, Too, Is America
Contemporary Critical Responses
2: W.E.B. Du Bois: Richard Wright Looks Back: Harsh, Forbidding Memories of Negro Childhood and Youth
3: Lionel Trilling: A Tragic Situation
4: Mary McCarthy: Portrait of a Typical Negro?
5: Ralph Ellison: Richard Wright's Blues
Scholarly and Critical Assessments
6: Janice Thaddeus: The Metamorphosis of Richard Wright's Black Boy
7: Charles T. Davis: From Experience to Eloquence: Richard Wright's Black Boy as Art
8: Robert B. Stepto: Literacy and Assent: Richard Wright's Black Boy
9: John O. Hodges: An Apprenticeship to Life and Art: Narrative Design in Wright's Black Boy
10: Yoshinobu Hakutani: Creation of the Self in Richard Wright's Black Boy
11: Jennifer H. Poulos: "Shouting Curses": The Politics of "Bad" Language in Richard Wright's Black Boy
12: Timothy Adams: Richard Wright: "Wearing the Mask"
13: Horace A. Porter: The Horror and the Glory: Richard Wright's Portrait of the Artist in Black Boy and American Hunger
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