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| Named Person: | Richard Wright; Richard Wright |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| ISBN: | 1555460550 9781555460556 |
| OCLC Number: | 16984864 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | viii, 174 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The bad nigger / Dan McCall -- Bigger's infernal assumption / Roger Rosenblatt -- "What had made him and what he meant": the politics of wholeness in "How 'Bigger' was born" / Joel Roache -- The beginnings of self-realization / Michael G. Cooke -- The tragic hero / Joyce Anne Joyce -- The dissociated sensibility of Bigger Thomas / Louis Tremaine -- Alienation and creativity in Native son / Valerie Smith -- The re(a)d and the black / Barbara Johnson -- Composing Bigger: Wright and the making of Native Son / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr. |
| Series Title: | Modern critical interpretations. |
| Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. |
Abstract:
A collection of critical essays on Wright's novel, arranged chronologically in the order of their original publication.
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