How "Bigger" was Born
Title | How "Bigger" was Born PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wright |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 48 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) |
ISBN |
How "Bigger" was Born. The Story of Native Son, Etc
Title | How "Bigger" was Born. The Story of Native Son, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wright |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Native Son
Title | Native Son PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wright |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 461 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN | 9780330313124 |
First published, 1940. Novel about a young Negro who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to free himself proves helpless
Native Son, And, How "Bigger" was Born
Title | Native Son, And, How "Bigger" was Born PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wright |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 634 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
A black author's assault upon a society that transforms self-destructiveness into an art.
How "Bigger" was Born
Title | How "Bigger" was Born PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wright |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Black Boy
Title | Black Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wright |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 506 |
Release | 2009-06-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0061935484 |
Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book “was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American.” From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a “drunkard,” hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo."
Richard Wright's Native Son
Title | Richard Wright's Native Son PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | African American men in literature |
ISBN | 0791096254 |
Richard Wright is one of the greatest African-American writers of the 20th century. His masterpiece Native Son is analyzed in this volume of essays.