Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical DocumentsIn Black Boy, Richard Wright triumphs over an ugly, racist world by fashioning an inspiring, powerful, beautiful, and fictionalized autobiography. To help students understand and appreciate his story in the cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary. The selection of unique documents is designed to place in sharp relief the issue of pervasive racism in American society. Documents include excerpts from other autobiographies and a novel, legal documents, speeches, an interview, an anthropological study, magazine and newspaper articles, and contemporary editorials. Most of the documents are available in no other printed form. |
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... Lamb Beholds the Amazing Profits of the Carpet Tack Industry There were twenty - four applicants for the position before Edward Lamb appeared , the second day after the initial insertion of the advertisement which had been designed to ...
... Lamb and could see that he was succumbing to the mental chloroform . However , a man who at thirty has accumulated five thousand is not apt to be numbed without struggling . " Before we go any further , " interposed the patient , with ...
... Lamb was visibly disappointed . " It looks like a fine thing , ” he declared with a note of regret . " Fine ? My boy ... Lamb dump the tacks back into the large palm that had at first held them . He left them open to view , however , and ...
Contents
The Autobiographical Tradition | 15 |
The American Dream of Success | 55 |
The Dream Deferred | 87 |
Copyright | |
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Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy: A Student Casebook to Issues ... Robert Felgar Limited preview - 1998 |
Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy: A Student Casebook to Issues ... Robert Felgar No preview available - 1998 |