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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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(Re)Placing Richard Wright
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Taking Sides: Racism and Spatial Dimensions
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Wright: Pulp and Media, Reality and Fiction
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Wright: New Comparative Frameworks, Transnational Boundaries
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About this book
Reviews
"Richard Wright is a welcome addition to Wright scholarship, especially the essays that explore the inflections of social justice in Wright's global vision and transnational modernism or offer provocative readings of individual texts, such as A Father's Law. The volume establishes the continuing importance of Wright's perspectives in literary and cultural studies today through a renewed engagement in comparative frameworks with his fiction and non-fiction from the 1940s and the 1950s." - Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English, Ohio University
"Richard Wright's role in the history of our present is the beating heart of this indispensable collection of essays. By paying much needed attention to his late and unpublished writings, neglected details of his exile from the United States, and his influence on contemporaries as diverse as Carson McCullers and George Lamming, these essays reveal Wright as a revolutionary prophet of the Global South, the transatlantic diaspora, and the postcolonial world. Wright resurfaces here as a rogue fugitive of capitalist modernity: the man who thankfully knew too much." - Bill V. Mullen, Professor of English and American Studies, Purdue University
About the authors
WILLIAM E. DOW is Professor of American Literature at Université Paris-Est, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Richard Wright
Book Subtitle: New Readings in the 21st Century
Editors: Alice Mikal Craven, William E. Dow
Series Title: Signs of Race
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230340237
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11281-0Published: 29 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29477-0Published: 29 June 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-34023-7Published: 18 July 2011
Series ISSN: 2945-6312
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6320
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 292
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Fiction, Ethnicity Studies, African American Culture