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In The Messenger (1963), Wright draws so extensively upon his life that fact and fiction often blur. Realistically narrated in the first person by a fair-skinned black Manhattanite named Charles Stevenson, the novel dramatizes the isolation and alienation of persons who fall prey to America's social, economic, and racial caste systems. Stevenson, a New York City messenger, constantly finds himself on the edges of power, yet is utterly devoid of any. A man perceived as neither black nor white, a minority within a minority, he is cast adrift in the naturalistic city of New York, where victory and defeat are accepted with the same marvelous indifference. The Messenger brought Wright recognition and modest commercial success, but initially his 1966 novel The Wig was not well-received. Today, however, many people would agree with Ishmael Reed's 1973 assertion that The Wig is one of the most underrated novels by a black person in this century (John O'Brien, Interviews with Black Writers, 1973). Wright's use of fantasy and hyperbole distinguishes The Wig from most African American fiction of the mid-1960s.Set in an America of tomorrow, the novel depicts the desperately failed efforts of a

Author

Charles Wright - undifferentiated, Charles Wright

Publisher

HarperPerennial

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060969585

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities