...Susan Louise Edmunds This essay reads Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) against Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the New Deal, and the intervening history of white women’s sentimental activism. It argues that Native Son is a work of domestic fiction that self-consciously engages...

... history of the South. While hints of criticism toward northern segregation appeared in those early works, Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) offered the first intensive prognostication and condemnation of the ad hoc, discriminatory, and de facto system of segregation appearing in cities like Chicago...

...Lawrence P. Jackson Duke University Press 2000 Lawrence P. The Birth of the Critic: The LiteraryFriendship Jackson of Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright 6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 83 of223 Three years following...

... Robert Regan, University of Pennsylvania Edith Wharton’s Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur. By Sarah Bird Wright. New York: St. Martin’s. 1997. xii, 194 pp. $39.95. Relatively little has been...

...Julieann Veronica Ulin Over the course of the debate concerning Wright's depiction of black women, critics have ignored the manuscript and extensive body of research to which Wright immediately turned after Native Son , a project Wright explicitly identified as female-centered and for which his...

...Mikko Tuhkanen Tuhkanen argues that Richard Wright, with his references to dreaming in Native Son , Black Power , and elsewhere, develops a theory of postcolonial becoming, where the world's extant realities are challenged by the different “speeds” of the oneiric realm. In the controversial travel...

...Jeff Allred Duke University Press 2006 Jeff From Eye to We: Allred Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices, Documentary, and Pedagogy No ‘‘we’’ should be taken for granted when looking at other people’s pain.—Susan Sontag...

...Cheryl Higashida Duke University Press 2003 Cheryl Aunt Sue’s Children: Re-viewing the Gender(ed) Higashida Politics of Richard Wright’s Radicalism 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 153 of 246 In American Hunger...

...Douglas A. Jones, Jr. Abstract This essay considers how Richard Wright’s newly released novel, The Man Who Lived Underground (2021), offers a profound black existentialist rumination on suffering, alienation, pleasure, and aesthetic experience. Homing in on the novel’s use of figures of repetition...

...Laila Amine This essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin's...

... invested in visual constructs. Ellison's work with visual media ranged from an apprenticeship with Richmond Barthé to his life-long work as a photographer. Tracing the development of his aesthetic back to his friendship with Richard Wright and Romare Bearden, Hill argues that Ellison's metaphor...

... Wright’s Black Boy and primate liberation in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha provide new modes of imagining black humanism on the cusp of US racial desegregation. It is telling that one can find homages to the links between black liberation and the mundane magnificence of the animal world strategically...

...; and the Colored American Magazine ’s coverage of the lynching of Louis Wright. Reading these works alongside Pauline E. Hopkins’s Winona (1902), I show how her novel develops a philosophy of righteous revenge that reclaims the true meaning of justice in a democracy. Ultimately, this archive can help us not only...

... particularly on Evan Wright’s Generation Kill , this piece investigates the consequences of American soldiers’ encounters with the global familiar—goods and spaces within the war zone that unsettle distinctions due to the homogenizing forces of the global market. Encounters with the global familiar, the essay...

... it answers. To what degree have nonwhite performances of female gender, interracial mixing, and cross-class socialization shaped the tomboy category? Perhaps, though, this question is best thought with Wright, given her similar focus on middle-class ideas of freedom, respectability, and womanhood. Indeed...

... in inspiring and interrogating cross-disciplinary discussions about racial hierarchy and national belonging at the mid-twentieth-century moment. Jay Garcia’s Psychol­ ogy Comes to Harlem reveals how Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Ralph Elli- son, and James Baldwin, by incorporating psychological...

... at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois—and for years after his quasi graduation in 1903—than his professor Philip Green Wright, later his publisher. This “Illinois Prairie Leonardo,” as Sand- burg would call him, introduced the young poet to socialism, though a distinctly non-Marxist version...

..., he suggests that they imagine belonging beyond the boundaries of the nation and too beyond the horizon of citizenship. Across chapters that treat writings by Carlos Bulosan, Rich- ard Wright, C. L. R. James, and Claudia Jones, Keith demonstrates how each writer transvalued experiences of legal...

... to Black boys, as depicted in one of the best-known expressions of Black existence, Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940). Wright’s novel offers a specific example of the existential dilemma that Jean-Paul Sartre details: “Men and women everywhere, as part of the human condition, are ‘condemned to be free...

... moment in the historical convergence of these two existentialisms, most famously in the work and relationships of Richard Wright. His interactions with Sartre, Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir influenced his thinking and writing (as he influenced theirs), but as his biographer Michel Fabre writes, “Wright...