Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger): A Casebook

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.


Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Andrews, William L.
Published: 06/12/2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195157727
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.24h x 6.52w x 0.67d