No race, no country : the politics and poetics of Richard Wright / Deborah Mutnick.
| Author/creator | Mutnick, Deborah author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025] |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | More Bitter Truths of a Native Son -- A Consuming Curiosity: Reading, Writing, and Traversing the World -- On Becoming a Marxist -- Rediscovering America as a Black Federal Writer -- Seeing Deeper: Writing with Marxist Lenses -- Ecologies of Empire: Worlds Being Born, Worlds Dying -- Yearning for What Never Was. |
| Abstract | "No Race, No Country presents a major reconsideration of the breakthrough African American author Richard Wright's work and life. It challenges standard evaluations of his reputation as an autodidact, his late novels, his travel books, and his political commitments after he left the Communist Party USA. Deborah Mutnick engages a wide range of Wright's work throughout his career, providing a nuanced perspective on his complicated gender politics and his serious engagement with Marx's notions of historical materialism, alienation, and commodity fetishism. Adding to a small but growing number of studies of his ecological consciousness, it also examines both his closeness to nature, especially during his youth and late in life, and his early mapping of a racial geography of the 'second nature' of the sociocultural world that overlaps with and transforms the natural world. Finally, it joins a recent surge in scholarship on Wright's later nonfiction as a progenitor of Black radical internationalism in the 1960s and 1970s"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024045119 |
| ISBN | 9781469685489 |
| ISBN | 1469685485 |
| ISBN | 9781469685496 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1469685493 |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |