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<p>Richard Wright, the Mississippi-born black writer, saw himself as "an outsider between two cultures," a man searching.</p> <p>In these twelve essays written over the last two decades Michel Fabre, Wright's biographer, follows Wright's search in an investigation of the novelist's life and career. Although the essays were not originally intended as a collection, their organization her underscores Wright's literary and intellectual development.</p> <p>The essays range in time from a bibliographical study of Wright's first scanty personal library to his interest at the end of his life in Negritude and African writing. Other essays probe his first use of the Gothic and his subsequent first efforts at "naturalistic" fiction, in which he moved away from the ideology of the American Communist Party, to which he belonged for some ten years after 1933, to more personal modes of self-expression. Also explored within these pieces are Wright's use of the psychological approach, his interest in the link between sex and racism, and his obsessive exploration of the unconscious determinants in so-called criminal behavior. One essay examines Wright's poetry from the days when he wrote ideological

Author

Fabre, Michel

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585203171

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History