Richard Wright's Native son / / edited by Ana Maria Fraile.
Coinciding with the preparations for the celebration in 2008 of Richard Wright’s 100th birthday, this new collection of critical essays on Native Son attests to the importance and endurance of Wright’s controversial work. The eleven essays collected in this volume engage the objective of Rodopi’s Di...
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| Superior document: | Dialogue ; 2 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Guft va gu ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Richard Wright and His White Audience: How the Author’s Persona Gave Native Son Historical Significance / Caleb Corkery
- From Communism to Black Studies and Beyond: The Reception of Richard Wright’s Native Son / Philip Goldstein
- Sexual Diversity in Richard Wright’s Characterization of Bigger Thomas: Homo-socialism, Homo-eroticism, and the Feminine / Yvonne Robinson Jones
- Notes from a Native Daughter: The Nature of Black Womanhood in Native Son / Carol E. Henderson
- Slavery and Africa in Native Son and Black Power: A Transnationalist Interpretation / Babacar M’Baye
- Vortical Blues: Turbulence, Disorder, and the Emplotment of Surplus Meaning in Native Son / Herman Beavers
- Native Son’s “ideology of form”: The (African) American Jeremiad and American Exceptionalism / Ana María Fraile-Marcos
- Genre in/and Wright’s Native Son / Heather Duerre Humann
- Bigger’s “Rebellious Complaint”: Biblical Imagery in Native Son / Carme Manuel
- From Page to Screen: A Comparative Study of Richard Wright’s Native Son and Its Two Film Adaptations / Raphaël Lambert
- The Hate U Gave (T.H.U.G.): Reflections on the Bigger Figures in Present Day Hip Hop Culture / James Braxton Peterson
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.