Richard Wright in a post-racial imaginary
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Richard Wright in a post-racial imaginary
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
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"The conference that Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow organized at the American University of Paris in 2008 ... the second of the two volumes to emerge from the Paris Conference"--P. [ix]
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Amritjit Singh
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Alice Mikal Craven, William E. Dow
Part 1: Wright as Global Intellectual and Racial Reformer
James Smethurst, "After Modernism: Richard Wright Interprets the Black Belt."
Cynthia Tolentino, "Sociological Interests, Racial Reform: Richard Wright's Intellectual of Color."
Mark Mve Bekale, "The Negro Intellectual and the Tragic Sense of Hybridity: A Study in Postcolonial Existentialism."
Anthony Dawahare, "Richard Wright's Native Son and the Dialectics of Black Experience."
Part 2: The Pursuit of Sovereignty in Wright's Political and Artistic Odyssey
Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, "Richard Wright and His Editors: A Work under the Influence? From the Signifyin(g) Rebel to the Exiled Intellectual."
Shoshana Milgram Knapp, "Recontextualizing Richard Wright's The Outsider: Hugo, Dostoevsky, Max Eastman, and Ayn Rand."
Barbara Foley, "'A Dramatic Picture . . . of Woman from Feudalism to Fascism': Richard Wright's Black Hope."
Part 3: Wright's Other Destinies: Gothicism and the Neo-Baroque
Charles Scruggs, "'Forged in Injustice': The Gothic Motif in the Fiction of Ernest Hemingway and Richard Wright."
William E. Dow, "Pulp Gothicism in Richard Wright's The Outsider."
Michel Feith, "Working the Underground Seam: Richard Wright's 'The Man Who Lived Underground' in the Light of Percival Everett's Zulus."
Part 4: Richard Wright's Sweet Airs: Experiments with Performance Genres
Bruce Allen Dick, "Forgotten Chapter: Richard Wright, Playwrights, and the Modern Theater."
Steven C. Tracy, "A Wright to Sing the Blues: King Joe's Punch."
Part 5: Transnational Shifts: Silence and Sentiment
Alice Mikal Craven, "Richard Wright's 'Island' of Silence in The Long Dream."
Sudhi Rajiv, "Expanding Metaphors of Marginalization: Richard Wright, Sharankumar Limbale, and a Post-Caste Imaginary."
Sandy Alexandre, "Culmination in Miniature: Late Style and the Essence of Richard Wright's Haiku."
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