Author: Richard Wright
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A black author's assault upon a society that transforms self-destructiveness into an art.
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9780330313124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published, 1940. Novel about a young Negro who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to free himself proves helpless
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780224618472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0791096254
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Richard Wright is one of the greatest African-American writers of the 20th century. His masterpiece Native Son is analyzed in this volume of essays.
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-06-16
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0061935417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr. Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. This edition of Native Son includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born, along with notes on the text.
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-06-16
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 0061935484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book “was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American.” From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a “drunkard,” hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo."