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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... determined to find out what he can challenge successfully . He wants to know what au- thority is based on and why he should accept it . Realizing , for instance , that he cannot hope to challenge his father directly and prevail , Wright ...
... determined to set the world straight about his younger self and the world that surrounded him . The narrator is a relentless attacker of racism and groundless authority ; he sees his experi- ences as overwhelming evidence for the basic ...
... determined , both were determined to es- cape oppression , both got ahead and made money , both were writers . The decisive difference , of course , was that one was black , the other white . Although the selections reprinted here are ...
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 |