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Writings : The suppression of the African slave-trade ; The souls of black folk ; Dusk of dawn ; Essays and articles
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ISBN: 094045033X 9780940450332 Year: 1986 Volume: 34 Publisher: New York: Literary classics of the United States,

Canaan Land : a religious history of African Americans
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ISBN: 0195145852 9780195145854 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press,


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Les Négro spirituals et les Gospel songs
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ISBN: 2130457045 9782130457046 Year: 1993 Volume: 2791 Publisher: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,

Singing the Lord's Song in a strangle land : the African American Churches and Ecumenism
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ISBN: 2825411043 9782825411049 Year: 1993 Volume: 57 Publisher: Geneva: WCC,

New essays on Native son
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ISBN: 0521348226 0521343194 051162445X 9780521348225 9780511624452 9780521343190 Year: 1990 Volume: *11 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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New Essays on Native Son provides original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright. After an introductory essay by the editor on the conception, composition, and reception of the novel, four leading Afro-Americanists examine various aspects of this classic fictional account of violent life and death in a racist society. John M. Reilly shows how carefully Wright utilises narrative techniques to subvert conventional American racial discourse and to establish the authority and authenticity of the protagonist's voice. Trudier Harris explores some of the social ironies involved in the novel's unfavourable presentation of female characters. Houston A. Baker Jr, focuses precisely on the concept of place in a new historicists treatment of black male and female roles in Native Son against Wright's own interpretation of Afro-American history in 12 Million Black Voices. Finally, Craig Werner convincingly relates Native Son to modernism as a literary movement. Moving beyond the old debate between protest and art, these essays, informed by new critical theory and perspectives, reveal previously unsuspected depth, complexity, and resonance in Wright's vision of black life and his literary resources in expressing it.

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