Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger): A Casebook

by William L. Andrews

2020-11-24 16:56:03

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, an... Read more
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; andthe impact of African-American vernacular and oral performance on Wright''s autobiography. Less

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File size5.39 X 8.19 X 0.79 in
Print pages224
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date May 15, 2003
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195157727

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