Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright

Shows Wright's art was intrinsic to his politics, grounding his exploration of the intersections between race, gender, and class.

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Glenda R. (Harvard University Carpio (Editor), Glenda R. Carpio (Editor)
• Authors: Glenda R. (Harvard University Carpio
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.04.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology
• EAN: 9781108469234
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46923-4
• Pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: USA, Ethnic Studies, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Black & Asian Studies