Author: Richard WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
How "Bigger" was Born
Author: Richard WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
How "Bigger" was Born. The Story of Native Son, Etc
Author: Richard WrightNative Son, And, How "Bigger" was Born
Author: Richard WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
A black author's assault upon a society that transforms self-destructiveness into an art.
Native Son
Author: Richard WrightPublisher:
ISBN: 9780330313124
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
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
How "Bigger" was Born
Author: Richard WrightBlack Boy
Author: Richard WrightPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061935484
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
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."
Richard Wright's Native Son
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0791096254
Category : African American men in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
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.
Bigger
Author: Trudier HarrisPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300277334
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim and perpetrator, damaged by racism and segregation on the South Side of Chicago, seemingly raping and killing without regrets. His story has electrified readers for more than eight decades, and it continues to galvanize debates around representation, respectability, social justice, and racism in American life. In this book, distinguished scholar Trudier Harris examines the literary life of Bigger Thomas from his birth to the current day. Harris explores the debates between Black critics and Communist artists in the 1930s and 1940s over the “political novel,” the censorship of Native Son by white publishers, and the work’s initial reception—as well as interpretations from Black feminists and Black Power activists in the decades that followed, up to the novel’s resonance with the Black Lives Matter movement today. Bigger, Harris argues, represents the knotted heart of American racism, damning and unsettling, and still very much with us.
How "Bigger" was born
Author: Richard WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afroamericanos - Novela
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Middlesex
Author: Jeffrey EugenidesPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307401944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is a hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie’s grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator’s life in motion. Middlesex is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It’s a brilliant exploration of divided people, divided families, divided cities and nations -- the connected halves that make up ourselves and our world.