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Shows Wright's art was intrinsic to his politics, grounding his exploration of the intersections between race, gender, and class.
List of contents
Introduction: Richard Wright's art and politics Glenda R. Carpio; Part I. Native Son in Jim Crow America: 1. The literary ecology of Native Son and Black Boy George Hutchinson; 2. Richard Wright's planned incongruity: Black Boy as modern living Jay Garcia; 3. Marxism, communism, and Richard Wright's depression-era work Nathaniel F. Mills; 4. Rhythms of race in Richard Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home' Robert B. Stepto; 5. Sincere art and honest science: Richard Wright and the Chicago School of Sociology Gene Andrew Jarrett; 6. Outside joke: humorlessness and masculinity in Richard Wright Kathryn S. Roberts; Part II. I Choose Exile: Wright Abroad: 7. Freedom in a godless and unhappy world: Wright as outsider Tommie Shelby; 8. Richard Wright, Paris Noir, and transatlantic networks: a book history perspective Laurence Cossu-Beaumont; 9. Expatriation in Wright's late fiction Alice Mikal Craven; 10. Richard Wright's globalism Nicholas T. Rinehart; 11. Richard Wright's transnationalism and his unwritten Magnus Opus Stephan Kuhl; 12. Tenderness in early Richard Wright Ernest Julius Mitchell.
About the author
Glenda R. Carpio is Professor of African and African American Studies and English at Harvard University, Massachusetts. She is the author of Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (2008). She coedited African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (2011) with Professor Werner Sollors and is currently at work on a book tentatively titled Migrant Aesthetics, a study of contemporary immigrant fiction.
Summary
This Companion will be used in undergraduate and graduate courses on African American studies and American literature. It will appeal to those wishing to examine black literature in relationship to a variety of disciplines - including psychology, political science, sociology and philosophy - and anyone interested in the relationship between art and social change.
