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A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such asUncle Tom's Children(1938),Black Boy(1945), andNative Son(1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship throughout his career for the graphic sexuality, intense violence, and communist themes in his work. Yet, many political theorists have ignored his radical ideas.InThe Politics of Richard Wright, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. Several contributors explore how the writer mixed fact and fiction to capture the empirical and emotional reality of living as a black person in a racist world. Others examine the role of gender in Wright's canonical and lesser-known writing and the implications of black male vulnerability. They also discuss the topics of black subjectivity, internationalism and diaspora, and the legacy of and responses to slavery in America.Wright's contributions to American political thought remain vital and relevant today.The Politics of Richard Wrightis an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy.

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Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. Best known as the trailblazing, bestselling author of Native Son and Black Boy, he established himself as an experimental literary intellectual in France who creatively drew on some of the leading ideas of his time - Marxism, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism - to explore the sources and meaning of racism both in the United States and worldwide. Richard Wright in Context gathers thirty-three new essays by leading scholars relating Wright's writings to biographical, regional, social, literary, and intellectual contexts essential to understanding them. It explores the places that shaped his life and enabled his literary destiny, the social and cultural contexts he both observed and immersed himself in, and the literary and intellectual contexts that made him one the most famous Black writers in the world at mid-century.

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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Lawd Today --- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Uncle Tom's Children --- Authors, American --- African American authors --- African Americans in literature. --- Wright, Richard, --- African Americans in literature --- -American authors --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American authors --- Authors, African American --- Negro authors --- Wright, Richard --- -Wright, Richard --- -Afro-Americans in literature --- American authors --- Raĭt, Richard, --- Raiṭ, Rits'ard, --- רייט, ריצ׳רד --- רייט, ריצ׳רד, --- رتشارد رايت --- Criticism and interpretation --- رايت، رتشارد --- Rāyt, Rīchārd, --- راىت، رىچارد --- Wright, Richard (1908-1960) --- Critique et interprétation --- Critique et interprétation

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Describes a philosophical tradition of 'black liberation atheism' that emerges, gaining coherence and momentum, in the twentieth century

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