Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger) : A Casebook Paperback / softback
Edited by William L. (Maynard Adams Professor of English, Maynard Adams Professor of English, Univers Andrews, Douglas (Assistant Professor of English and African-American Studies, Assistant Professor of Taylor
Part of the Casebooks in Criticism series
Paperback / softback
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195157727
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195157727
