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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... living is his way of living . Unlike Franklin , Douglass , or Washington , Wright is not trying to show other people the way ; he is describing only his way . This is what I have done , Wright declares ; you are on your own . Such ...
... living , the rearing of children , education , citizenship , and the establish- ment and support of churches . Was it any wonder that within a few hours the wild rejoicing ceased and a feeling of deep gloom seemed to pervade the slave ...
... living under slavery or in its shadow . " Where whites sometimes see what appears to them to be black para- noia and a black obsession with race , blacks see what appears to them to be white denial , an unwillingness or inability to ...
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 |