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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... mother seems to have done the best she could for her firstborn son , but from his point of view , it was not enough . Largely because of her poor health , Mrs. Wright was not ... mother's mother , 8 Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy.
... mother and a brother and sister till after the Civil War , when we were all declared free . Of my ancestry I know ... mother's side , suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship while being conveyed from Africa to America . I have ...
... mother had to do over an open fireplace , mostly in pots and “ skillets . " While the poorly built cabin caused us to suffer with cold in the winter , the heat from the open fireplace in summer was equally trying . The early years of my ...
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 |