New Essays on Native Son

Klappentext The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the novel's composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as well as a survey of the major critical trends and readings from first publication to the present. Zusammenfassung New Essays on Native Son provides original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright. Following an introductory essay by the editor on the conception! composition and reception of the novel! four leading Afro-Americanists examine various aspects of this classic fictional account of violent life and death in a racist society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Giving bigger a voice: the politics of narrative in Native Son; 3. Native sons and foreign daughters; 4. Richard Wright and the Dynamics of Place in Afro-American Literature; 5. Bigger's Blues: Native Son and the articulation of Afro-American modernisation; Notes on contributors; Selected bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Keneth Kinnamon, Kenneth Kinnamon
• Mitarbeit: Keneth Kinnamon (Herausgeber), Kinnamon Keneth (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.05.1990
• EAN: 9780521348225
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34822-5
• Seiten: 168
• Serien: The American Novel; American Novel (Paperback); The American Novel
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general