Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-10
From New Chicago Renaissance from Wright to Fair Modern and Postmodern Eden: Richard Wright....Pages 11-26
Wright among the “G-Men”: How the FBI Framed Paris Noir....Pages 27-38
 A Father’s Law, 1950s Masculinity, and Richard Wright’s Agony over Integration....Pages 39-54
Seeking Salvation in a Naturalistic Universe: Richard Wright’s Use of His Southern Religious Background in Black Boy (American Hunger)....Pages 55-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-70
“White People to Either Side”: Native Son and the Poetics of Space....Pages 71-82
Becoming Richard Wright: Space and the WPA....Pages 83-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-103
Savage Holiday: Documentary Noir and True Crime in 12 Million Black Voices ....Pages 105-127
Richard Wright’s A Father’s Law and Black Metropolis: Intellectual Growth and Literary Vision....Pages 129-146
A Queer Finale: Sympathy and Privacy in Wright’s A Father’s Law ....Pages 147-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-169
Changing Texts: Censorship, “Reality,” and Fiction in Native Son ....Pages 171-192
“The Astonishing Humanity”: Domestic Discourses in the Friendship and Fiction of Richard Wright and Carson McCullers....Pages 193-214
When Wright Bid McKay Break Bread: Tracing Black Transnational Genealogy....Pages 215-234
The Political Art of Wright’s “Fire and Cloud”....Pages 235-248
Richard Wright and the Circum Caribbean....Pages 249-266
Afterword....Pages 267-271
Back Matter....Pages 273-292