Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1567430279 ISBN 13: 9781567430271

Casa editrice: Amistad Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Richard Wright

(1908 -- 1960)

Of the numerous achievements that distinguish Richard Wright's place in the history of American literature, perhaps none is more important than the fact that he was the first African-American writer to sustain himself professionally from his writings alone. Primarily through the success of Native Sonand Black Boy, Wright was able to support, for two decades, a comfortable life for himself and his family in Paris. He also became, with the publication of Native Sonalone, the first internationally celebrated Black American author. If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son,his first and most successful novel.

-- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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L'autore:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored seventeen books and created fourteen documentary films. Having written for such leading publications as The New Yorker, the New York Times, and Time, Professor Gates now serves as chairman of the daily online magazine The Root and is editor in chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees from institutions the world over.

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• Editore: Amistad Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1567430279
• ISBN 13: 9781567430271
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 476
• Redattore: Gates Henry Louis, Appiah Kwame Anthony