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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... father directly and prevail , Wright intentionally takes his father's words about killing a kitten literally in order to defy his authority by a willful misun- derstanding . Similarly , he is determined to deliver the junior high school ...
... father is be- cause the latter eats too much , while the young Richard Wright frequently goes hungry . Wright's father abandoned his wife and two sons for another woman , leaving the family in desperate straits . The narrator recounts ...
... father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity , most of which I read , and have since often ... father to make me a printer , though he had already one son ( James ) of the profession . In 1717 my brother James ...
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 |