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Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger)

A Casebook

William L Andrews editor DOUGLAS TAYLOR editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:14th Aug '03

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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.

ISBN: 9780195157727

Dimensions: 166mm x 209mm x 17mm

Weight: 286g

224 pages