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Author:   Glenda R. Carpio (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9781108475174

ISBN 10:   1108475175
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Richard Wright's art and politics Glenda R. Carpio; Part I. Native Son in Jim Crow America: 1. The literary ecology of Native Son and Black Boy George Hutchinson; 2. Richard Wright's planned incongruity: Black Boy as modern living Jay Garcia; 3. Marxism, communism, and Richard Wright's depression-era work Nathaniel F. Mills; 4. Rhythms of race in Richard Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home' Robert B. Stepto; 5. Sincere art and honest science: Richard Wright and the Chicago School of Sociology Gene Andrew Jarrett; 6. Outside joke: humorlessness and masculinity in Richard Wright Kathryn S. Roberts; Part II. I Choose Exile: Wright Abroad: 7. Freedom in a godless and unhappy world: Wright as outsider Tommie Shelby; 8. Richard Wright, Paris Noir, and transatlantic networks: a book history perspective Laurence Cossu-Beaumont; 9. Expatriation in Wright's late fiction Alice Mikal Craven; 10. Richard Wright's globalism Nicholas T. Rinehart; 11. Richard Wright's transnationalism and his unwritten Magnus Opus Stephan Kuhl; 12. Tenderness in early Richard Wright Ernest Julius Mitchell.

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'This is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Wright (1908-60), especially in that it attempts to revise Wright's literary legacy ... All the essays are thoughtful and well researched. Two of the more outstanding submissions are Kathryn Roberts's 'Outside Joke: Humorlessness and Masculinity in Richard Wright' and Ernest Julius Mitchell's 'Tenderness in Early Richard Wright'. These essays reframe Wright's intentions and explode long-held myths of his views on gender and sexuality ... Highly Recommended' A. S. Newson-Horst, Choice 'This is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Wright (1908-60), especially in that it attempts to revise Wright's literary legacy ... All the essays are thoughtful and well researched. Two of the more outstanding submissions are Kathryn Roberts's 'Outside Joke: Humorlessness and Masculinity in Richard Wright' and Ernest Julius Mitchell's 'Tenderness in Early Richard Wright'. These essays reframe Wright's intentions and explode long-held myths of his views on gender and sexuality ... Highly Recommended' A. S. Newson-Horst, Choice

'This is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Wright (1908–60), especially in that it attempts to revise Wright's literary legacy … All the essays are thoughtful and well researched. Two of the more outstanding submissions are Kathryn Roberts's 'Outside Joke: Humorlessness and Masculinity in Richard Wright' and Ernest Julius Mitchell's 'Tenderness in Early Richard Wright'. These essays reframe Wright's intentions and explode long-held myths of his views on gender and sexuality … Highly Recommended' A. S. Newson-Horst, Choice

Author Information

Glenda R. Carpio is Professor of African and African American Studies and English at Harvard University, Massachusetts. She is the author of Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (2008). She coedited African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (2011) with Professor Werner Sollors and is currently at work on a book tentatively titled Migrant Aesthetics, a study of contemporary immigrant fiction.

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