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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Richard Wright; Richard Wright |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Wright |
| ISBN: | 0060834005 9780060834005 |
| OCLC Number: | 61652696 |
| Notes: | "The restored text established by the Library of America." "Originally published in 1945 by Harper & Brothers ... The text as restored by the Library of America originally published in 1991"--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | x, 419 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / Edward P. Jones -- Black Boy, Part 1 : Southern night ; Part 2 : The horror and the glory -- Chronology of the life of Richard Wright -- Note on the text. |
| Responsibility: | Richard Wright ; foreword by Edward P. Jones. |
Abstract:
This book is Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South. His training by his elders was strict and harsh to prepare him for the cruel "white world". His elders' resentment of those trying to escape their common misery made his future seem hopeless. In this book, the author describes his mental and emotional struggle to educate himself, which gave him a glimpse of life's possibilities and which led him to his triumphant decision to leave the South behind while still a teenager to live in Chicago and fulfill himself by becoming a writer.
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Related Subjects:(8)
- Wright, Richard, -- 1908-1960 -- Childhood and youth.
- Wright, Richard, -- 1908-1960 -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi.
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- Social life and customs.
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi.
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
- African American authors -- Biography.
- Mississippi -- Social conditions.
- Mississippi -- Biography.
