UID:
almafu_9959244103702883
Format:
1 online resource (387 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
0-8131-7518-6
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0-8131-7519-4
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0-8131-7517-8
Series Statement:
Kentucky scholarship online
Content:
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such asUncle Tom's Children(1938),Black Boy(1945), andNative Son(1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship throughout his career for the graphic sexuality, intense violence, and communist themes in his work. Yet, many political theorists have ignored his radical ideas.InThe Politics of Richard Wright, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. Several contributors explore how the writer mixed fact and fiction to capture the empirical and emotional reality of living as a black person in a racist world. Others examine the role of gender in Wright's canonical and lesser-known writing and the implications of black male vulnerability. They also discuss the topics of black subjectivity, internationalism and diaspora, and the legacy of and responses to slavery in America.Wright's contributions to American political thought remain vital and relevant today.The Politics of Richard Wrightis an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
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I Have Seen Black Hands / Richard Wright -- Wright's Afromodern Search for Political Freedom / Lewis R. Gordon -- Richard Wright and the Critique of Class Theory / Cedric J. Robinson -- Alternative Readings of Bigger Thomas / Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh -- Richard Wright's Mission: initiating a politics of the human / Marilyn Nissim-Sabat -- Richard Wright and Black Women: imagining the feminine in The Outsider / Floyd W. Hayes III -- Masculinity, Misogyny, and the Limits of Racial Community / Paul Gilroy -- He's a Rapist, Even When He's Not: Richard Wright's account of Black male vulnerability in The raping of Willie McGee / Tommy J. Curry -- Behind the McGee Case / Richard Wright -- Seizing Freedom with Simone de Beauvoir / Lori J. Marso -- Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana: Black radicalism and the dialectics of diaspora / Kevin Kelly Gaines -- Psychology and Black Liberation in Richard Wright's Black Power (1954) / Dorothy Stringer -- Blueprint for Negro writing / Richard Wright -- Floating facts on a sea of emotion: the literary journalism of Richard Wright / William Dow -- Many dark mirrors of Richard Wright's 12 million Black voices / Perry S. Moskowitz -- Richard Wright: the "nature" of politics-the "politics" of nature / James B. Haile III -- Joe Louis uncovers dynamite / Richard Wright -- Notes toward a political economy of life and death: reading Richard Wright with Frantz Fanon / Abdul R. JanMohamed -- Reading Richard Wright beyond the carceral state: the politics of refusal in Black radical imagination / Laura Grattan -- Slavery continued, freedom sought: Wright's political intellectual journey / Jane Anna Gordon.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8131-7516-X
Language:
English
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