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). ALICE MIKAL CRAVEN is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at theAmerican University of Paris, France. WILLIAM E. DOW is Professor of AmericanLiterature at Université Paris-Est, France. INDICE: Introduction; 'A.Mikal Craven' & 'W.E.Dow - 'PART I: '(RE)PLACING RICHARD WRIGHT' - From New Chicago Renaissance from Wright to Fair Modern and Post-Modern Eden: Richard Wright; 'R.Baxter Miller - 'Wright Among the 'G-Men': How the FBI Framed Paris Noir; 'W.J.Maxwell - 'A Father's Law, 1950s Masculinity, and Richard Wright's Agony Over Integration; 'L.Cassuto - 'Seeking Salvation in a Naturalistic Universe: Richard Wright's Use of His Southern Religious Background in Black Boy (American Hunger); 'R.J.Butler - 'PART II: 'TAKING SIDES: RACISM AND SPATIAL DIMENSIONS' - 'White People to Either Side': Native Son and the Poetics of Space; 'I.Soto - 'Becoming Richard Wright: Space and theWPA; 'T.M.Davis - 'PART III: 'WRIGHT: PULP AND MEDIA, REALITY AND FICTION' - Savage Holiday: Documentary Noir and True Crime in 12 Million Black Voices; 'P.Rabinowitz - 'A Father's Law and Black Metropolis: Intellectual Growth and Literary Vision; 'J.A.Joyce - 'A Queer Finale: Sympathy and Privacy in Wright's A Father's Law; 'J.C.Charles - 'PART IV: 'WRIGHT: NEW COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORKS' - Changing Texts: Censorship, 'Reality' and Fiction in Native Son; 'C.Raynaud - ''The Astonishing Humanity': Domestic Discourses in the Friendship and Fiction of Richard Wright and Carson McCullers; 'J.Ulin - 'When Wright Bid McKay Break Bread: Tracing Black Transnational Geneaology; 'G.Holcomb - 'The PoliticalArt of Wright's 'Fire and Cloud'; 'R.Shulman - 'Richard Wright and the CircumCaribbean; 'J.Lowe' -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11281-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 22/07/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés