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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard Wright, Richard A. Wright, Richard/ Berry Wright
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.02.2008
• EAN: 9780061450198
• ISBN: 978-0-06-145019-8
• Pagine: 352
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: P.S.
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio > Mondo, Artide, Antartide; 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