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The Critical Response to Richard Wright
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Book Code: GR8860
ISBN: 0-313-28860-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28860-9
240 pages, chronology
Greenwood Press
Publication: 3/30/1995
List Price: $83.95 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
Series Number: 16
Reviews:
  • ...a carefully documented--and selective--review of the criticism of four of Wright's works: Native Son, Black Boy, The Outsider, and Eight Men. Of particular value are Butler's careful evaluation of the shifts in the critical responses to Richard Wright over time and the final section, "Richard Wright Today," which discusses the controversy triggered by the publication of the Library of America editions of Wright's work. Will be particularly useful for general readers and nonspecialists who seek a deeper understanding of the scope of Wright's career. Public and academic collections at all levels.

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Description: Richard Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important African-American writers and as a significant 20th-century author. With the publication of Native Son in 1940, Wright established his enduring reputation as a man of letters. With the immense critical success of Native Son, Wright went on to author Black Boy, The Outsider, and Eight Men. His writings reflect his experiences growing up in the poverty and racial strife of the South, and his thoughts on major social issues. 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, "Richard Wright Today," offers contemporary assessments of Wright's reputation, as well as fascinating discussions of the recent Library of America editions of his works.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Forward by Cameron Northouse
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Bibliographical Overview
  • Richard Wright: Black Boy from America's Black Belt and Urban Ghettos by Blyden Jackson
  • Native Son: The Personal, Social, and Political Background by Keneth Kinnamon
  • Native Son 1940
  • Review of Native Son by Henry Seidel Canby
  • Review of Native Son by Charles Poore
  • Uneven Effect by Howard Mumford Jones
  • A Powerful Novel About a Boy from Chicago's Black Belt by Margaret Wallace
  • Review of Native Son by Samuel Sillen
  • Wright's Invisible Native Son by Donald B. Gibson
  • Richard Wright's Women Characters and Inequality by Sylvia Keady
  • Wright's Native Son and Two Novels by Zola: A Comparative Study by Robert Butler
  • Black Boy 1945
  • Review of Black Boy by Orville Prescott
  • Black Hunger by Charles Lee
  • Richard Wright Looks Back by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
  • Richard Wright Adds a Chapter to Our Bitter Chronicle
  • Creation of the Self in Richard Wright's Black Boy by Yoshinobu Hakutani
  • Sociology of an Existence: Richard Wright and the Chicago School by Carla Cappetti
  • Introduction to HarperPerennial Edition of Black Boy (American Hunger) by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
  • The Outsider 1953
  • Review of The Outsider by Orville Prescott
  • Review of The Outsider by Arna Bontemps
  • Review of The Outsider by Lorraine Hansberry
  • Richard Wright and the French Existentialists by Michel Fabre
  • Richard Wright's The Outsider: Existentialist Exemplar or Critique? by Amritijit Singh
  • Eight Men 1961
  • Lives of More than Quiet Desperation by Richard Sullivan
  • Review of Eight Men by Saunders Redding
  • Richard Wright: A Word of Farewell by Irving Howe
  • The Paradoxical Structure of Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground" by Patricia D. Watkins
  • Thematic and Formal Unity of Richard Wright's Eight Men by Robert Butler
  • Richard Wright Today
  • Too Honest for His Own Time by Arnold Rampersad
  • The Problematic Texts of Richard Wright by James W. Tuttleton
  • The Library of America Edition of Native Son by Keneth Kinnamon
  • The Library of American Edition of The Outsider by Yoshinobu Hakutani
  • Authority, Gender, and Fiction by Eugene E. Miller
  • The Invisible Woman in Wright's Rite of Passage by Robert Butler
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 94-40142
LCC Class: PS3545
Dewey Class: 813
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