Richard Wright in Context -

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Sommaire:
Introduction: Richard Wright's Luck Michael Nowlin; Part I. Life and Career, Times and Places: 1. The Jim Crow South Thadious Davis; 2. Chicago Liesl Olson; 3. New York and Brooklyn Ayesha Hardison; 4. Paris and Ailly William E. Dow; 5. Globetrotting, 1949-1960 John Lowe; Part II. Social and Cultural Contexts: 6. Black Masculinity: Boyhood and Manhood Denied in Jim Crow America Joseph G. Ramsey; 7. Wright and African American Women Shana A. Russell; 8. He Tried to Be a Communist: Wright and the Black Literary Left Alan M. Wald; 9. Liberalism and the Color Line John K. Young; 10. 'The Same Stuff': Native Son and Press Coverage of the Robert Nixon Trial Jeannine Marie DeLombard; 11. Moviegoer and Cinematic Seers Alice Mikal Craven; 12. Fashion: Un/dressing Wright Paula Rabinowitz; 13. 'Defeat Measured in the Jumping Cadences of Triumph': Wright's Engagement with Blues and Jazz Tim A. Ryan; 14. Wright and Religion Jamall A. Calloway; 15. Bandung and Third World Liberation Brian Russell Roberts; 16. Black Paris, Hard-Boiled Paranoia, and the Cultural Cold War William J. Maxwell; Part III. Literary and Intellectual Contexts: 17. Chicago Sociology Christopher Douglas; 18. 1930s Proletarian Fiction Anthony Dawahare; 19. The Blues in Print: Wright's 'Blueprint for Negro Writing' Reconsidered Jesse McCarthy; 20. Realism and Modernism, Solipsism and Solidarity Anne MacMaster and Anita DeRouen; 21. The Literary Mainstream: Story and the Book-of-the-Month Club Laurence Cossu-Beaumont; 22. Wright, Psychoanalysis, and Fredric Wertham's Reading of Hamlet Stephan Kuhl; 23. Wright's Black Boy in Context Robert B. Stepto; 24. Wright and Women Authors Noelle Morrissette; 25. Existentialism Stephanie Li; 26. Wright and Les Temps Modernes Michael Nowlin; 27. Wright and Postcolonial Thought Joseph Keith; 28. Modern Poetry and Haiku Anita Patterson; Part IV. Reputation and Critical Reception: 29. Wright's Many Lives and the Travails of Literary Biography Claudine Raynaud; 30. Contemporary Reception Ian Afflerbach; 31. Native Son on Stage and Screen Anna Shechtman; 32. Wright's Critical Reputation, 1960-2019 Robert J. Butler; 33. Richard Wright in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter: Two Views Barbara Foley and Jerry W. Ward, Jr.