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