Pagan Spain

A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain , originally published in 1957. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological critique, Pagan Spain serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the grave human dangers of oppression and governmental corruption. The Spain Richard Wright visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story, but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers in Pagan Spain is a blistering, powerful, yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil, caught in the strangling dual grip of cruel dictatorship and what Wright saw as an undercurrent of primitive faith.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Wright, Richard A. Wright, Richard/ Berry Wright
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2008
• EAN: 9780061450198
• ISBN: 978-0-06-145019-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, HISTORY / African American, Travel writing, Indigenous Peoples, History of Science, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, General and world history, Relating to Native American people, HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: Social History, TRAVEL: Essays & Travelogues, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: HISTORY, HISTORY: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, HISTORY: African American & Black, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: HISTORY, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Ethnic Studies / General, HISTORY: Europe / Spain & Portugal, Relating to African American / Black American people, African American Studies / History, Harper Perennial Classics / History