Critical essays on Richard Wright's Native son / edited by Keneth Kinnamon.

Other author Kinnamon, Keneth.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1997.
Descriptionxi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCritical essays on American literature
Critical essays on American literature. ^A118490
Contents Reviews : The case of Bigger Thomas / Malcolm Cowley -- Change the world : Dick Wright gives America a significant picture in "Native son" / Mike Gold -- Book reviews : Native son, by Richard Wright / Ralph Ellison -- The Negro novel : Richard Wright / David L. Cohn -- Native son and revolution / J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -- Insight, courage, and craftsmanship / Sterling A. Brown -- Negro novel and white reviewers / Burton Rascoe -- Reprinted criticism : The promise of democracy and the fiction of Richard Wright / Edwin Berry Burgum -- Wright's invisible native son / Donald B. Gibson -- Images of "vision" in Native son / James Nagel -- The conclusion of Richard Wight's Native son / Paul N. Siegel -- Composing Bigger : Wright and the making of Native son / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr. -- Bigger Thomas's quest for voice and audience in Richard Wright's Native son / James A. Miller -- Tone in Native son / Robert J. Butler -- An American hunger / Andrew Delbanco -- The city without maps in Richard Wright's Native son / Charles Scruggs -- Original essays : Native son, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and racial discourse / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- The politics of spatial phobias in Native son / Caren Irr -- On the lower frequencies : sound and meaning in Native son / Alessandro Portelli.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96040463
ISBN0783800134 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3545.R815 N337 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold