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Coinciding with the preparations for the celebration in 2008 of Richard Wright’s 100th birthday, this new collection of critical essays on Native Son attests to the importance and endurance of Wright’s controversial work. The eleven essays collected in this volume engage the objective of Rodopi’s Dialogue Series by creating multidirectional conversations in which senior and younger scholars interact with each other and with previous scholars who have weighed in on the novel’s import. Speaking from distant corners of the world, the contributors to this book reflect an international interest in Wright’s unique combination of literary strategies and social aims. The wide range of approaches to Native Son is presented in five thematic sections. The first three sections cover aspects such as the historical reception of Wright’s novel, the inscription of sex and gender both in Native Son and in other African American texts, and the influence of Africa and of vortical symbolism on Wright’s aesthetics; following is the study of the novel from the point of view of its adoption and transformation of various literary genres—the African American jeremiad, the protest novel, the crime novel and courtroom drama, the Bildungsroman , and the Biblical modes of narration. The closing section analyzes the novel’s lasting influence through its adaptation to other artistic fields, such as the cinema and song in the form of hip-hop. The present volume may, therefore, be of interest for students who are not very familiar with Wright’s classic text as well as for scholars and Richard Wright specialists.

Wright, Richard, --- Raĭt, Richard, --- Raiṭ, Rits'ard, --- רייט, ריצ׳רד --- רייט, ריצ׳רד, --- رتشارد رايت --- رايت، رتشارد --- Rāyt, Rīchārd, --- راىت، رىچارد --- Criticism and interpretation. --- American literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism.

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African Americans in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Wright, Richard, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Raĭt, Richard, --- Raiṭ, Rits'ard, --- רייט, ריצ׳רד --- רייט, ריצ׳רד, --- رتشارد رايت --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Wright, Richard --- Biography --- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 - Correspondence --- رايت، رتشارد --- Rāyt, Rīchārd, --- راىت، رىچارد

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African Americans --- -Authors, American --- -American authors --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Social conditions --- Wright, Richard --- -Social conditions --- Authors, American --- Wright, Richard, --- Raĭt, Richard, --- Raiṭ, Rits'ard, --- רייט, ריצ׳רד --- רייט, ריצ׳רד, --- رتشارد رايت --- رايت، رتشارد --- Rāyt, Rīchārd, --- راىت، رىچارد

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"An important contribution to the study of American life writing and an invaluable reassessment of the work of Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez."-Robert J. Butler, coeditor of The Richard Wright Encyclopedia

African Americans in literature. --- Mexican Americans in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Autobiography in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Wright, Richard, --- Rodriguez, Richard, --- Raĭt, Richard, --- Raiṭ, Rits'ard, --- רייט, ריצ׳רד --- רייט, ריצ׳רד, --- رتشارد رايت --- رايت، رتشارد --- Rāyt, Rīchārd, --- راىت، رىچارد --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Wright, Richard --- 820 "19" WRIGHT, RICHARD --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--WRIGHT, RICHARD --- -Criticism and interpretation --- African Americans in literature. --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Wright, Richard, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 820 "19" WRIGHT, RICHARD Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--WRIGHT, RICHARD --- Raĭt, Richard, --- Raiṭ, Rits'ard, --- רייט, ריצ׳רד --- רייט, ריצ׳רד, --- رتشارد رايت --- Criticism and interpretation --- رايت، رتشارد --- Rāyt, Rīchārd, --- راىت، رىچارد