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Richard Wright
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Richard Wright and Racial Discourse by Yoshinobu HakutaniISBN: 9780826210593
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
In an effort to gauge the extent of Wright's influence, Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes his work both as art and as a discourse on race. Taking into consideration the social and cultural milieu of Wright's time, Hakutani compares and contrasts Wright's works with those by other writers dealing with similar subjects. For example, he discusses Native Son in comparison with Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and in contrast with Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
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The Critical Response to Richard Wright by Robert J. ButlerISBN: 9780313288609
Publication Date: 1995-03-30
This volume traces the critical reception of Wright's major works, from the publication of Native Son to the present day. An introductory chapter overviews the critical response to his writings, while two biographical chapters discuss his writings in relation to his life. Sections are then devoted to Native Son, Black Boy, and The Outsider. Each of these sections presents reviews and articles reflecting the best criticism of Wright's works. A final section offers contemporary assessments of Wright's reputation.
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Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary by William E. Dow (Editor); Alice Mikal Craven (Editor); Yoko Nakamura (Editor)ISBN: 9781623566258
Publication Date: 2014-07-31
Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary analyses Wright's work in relation to contemporary racial and social issues, bringing voices of established and emergent Wright scholars into dialogue with each other. The essays in this volume show how Wright's best work asks central questions about national alienation as well as about international belonging and the trans-national gaze. Race is here assumed as a superimposed category, rather than a biological reality, in keeping with recent trends in African-American studies.
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The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, and Richard Wright by Mikko TuhkanenISBN: 9781441624079
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
This book charts new territory in the relationship of psychoanalysis to critical race studies by exploring the political and ethical implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for African American and other diasporic African cultural production. Focusing on texts by Richard Wright and Jacques Lacan, Mikko Tuhkanen develops a theory of "racialization" that recasts the genealogy of the Western concept of racial difference in terms of the Lacanian argument about the role of the scopic drive in constituting the human subject.
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Richard Wright: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism and Commentary, 1983-2003 by Keneth KinnamonISBN: 9780786421350
Publication Date: 2006-02-27
This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003 that examine Richard Wright's writings. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982.
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Student Companion to Richard Wright by Robert FelgarISBN: 9780313309090
Publication Date: 2000-05-30
Wright scholar Robert Felgar has written a critical volume to help students appreciate the literary significance of such groundbreaking works as Native Son and the autobiographical Black Boy. This study serves students of both literature and social history as it explores the themes of racism and all types of insitutionalized oppression that Wright exposed in his provocative writing. Felgar approaches each of Wright's major works in chronological order, offering insightful literary analysis.
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Richard Wright by Harold Bloom (Editor)ISBN: 9780877546399
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
This collection of critical essays on Wright and his works is arranged in chronological order of publication. Harold Bloom edited this volume as part of the Modern Critical Views series.
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