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Richard Wright in a post-racial imaginary

edited by Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow ; associate editor, Yoko Nakamura ; with a foreword by Amritjit Singh

(Literary studies)

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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First hardback ed. published 2014

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

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." Contributors Index

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