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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... fact that his grandmother was as white as any " white " person . He never saw any evidence that race was a legitimate source of authority , but he was excluded by a society that assumed unthinkingly that it was . Taking on faith the ...
... fact fictionalized ) and reporting and interpreting what the character Richard Wright experienced . The point of view is further complicated by the fact that the nar- rator bears witness to his own innocence , naïveté , and trustwor ...
... fact that my flesh was soft and tender added to the pain . But I had no choice . I had to wear the flax shirt or none ; and had it been left to me to choose , I should have chosen to wear no covering . In con- nection with the flax ...
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 |