Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century

Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century
ISBN-10
0230340237
ISBN-13
9780230340237
Series
Richard Wright
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
2011-07-18
Publisher
Springer
Author
A. Craven

Description

This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently published A Father ' s Law (2008).

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