Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger) : A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism)
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This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of Black Boy written by W.E.B. Du Bois, Lionel Trilling, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison, and eight critical essays.
These essays address a range of topics including the circumstances of the book's original publication in 1945; the relationship between the novel and Wright's actual biography; the African-American autobiographical tradition; the influences of various writers and literary movements on Black Boy; and
the impact of African-American vernacular and oral performance on Wright's autobiography.
Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger) : A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism),William L. Andrews,Douglas Taylor,Oxford University Press, USA,0195157710,1908-1960,African American authors,African American youth,American - African American & Black,Authors, American,Biography,Black boy,Cinema/Film: Book,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,Film & Video - General,History and criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Performing Arts,Wright, Richard,,American English,Childhood and youth,Contributions in autobiography,English,Literary Criticism & Collections / African-American & Black,Literary studies: from c 1900 -,Literature/English | American Literature | African American,Novels, other prose & writers,USA,Wright, Richard
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