Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. Best known as the trailblazing, bestselling author of Native Son and Black Boy, he established himself as an experimental literary intellectual in France who creatively drew on some of the leading ideas of his time - Marxism, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism - to explore the sources and meaning of racism both in the United States and worldwide. Richard Wright in Context gathers thirty-three new essays by leading scholars relating Wright's writings to biographical, regional, social, literary, and intellectual contexts essential to understanding them. It explores the places that shaped his life and enabled his literary destiny, the social and cultural contexts he both observed and immersed himself in, and the literary and intellectual contexts that made him one the most famous Black writers in the world at mid-century.
| ISBN: | 9781108488952 |
| Publication date: | 22nd July 2021 |
| Author: | Michael University of Victoria, British Columbia Nowlin |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 350 pages |
| Series: | Literature in Context |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary reference works Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Social and cultural history |