The Cambridge companion to Richard Wright / edited by Glenda R. Carpio. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to Richard Wright / edited by Glenda R. Carpio. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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English
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1 online resource (xxi, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Introduction: Richard Wright's art and politics / Glenda R. Carpio -- The literary ecology of Native son and Black boy / George Hutchinson -- Richard Wright's planned incongruity: Black boy as modern living / Jay Garcia -- Marxism, Communism, and Richard Wright's Depression-era work / Nathaniel F. M...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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England
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
Hailed as 'the father of black literature in the twentieth century', Richard Wright was an iconoclast, an intellectual of towering stature, whose multidisciplinary erudition rivals only that of W. E. B. Du Bois. This collection captures Wright's immense power, which has made him a beacon for writers across decades, from the civil rights era to toda...
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The Cambridge companion to Richard Wright / edited by Glenda R. Carpio. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions to authors
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74VKVBWrzeed
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVBWrzeed
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1-108-56751-7
1-108-63247-5
1-108-69810-7
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813/.52
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991024240902502626