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Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger): A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) by William L. Andrews, Douglas Taylor is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger): A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) about?

This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of Black Boy written by W.E.B. Du Bois, Lionel Trilling, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison, and eight critical essays. These essays address a range of topics including the circumstances of the book's original publication in 1945; the relationship between the novel and Wright's actual biography; the African-American autobiographical tradition; the influences of various writers and literary movements on Black Boy ; and the impact of African-American vernacular and oral performance on Wright's autobiography.

Author

William L. Andrews, Douglas Taylor

Publisher

Oxford University Press, U.S.A.

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195157727

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography