Native Son

• Author : Richard Wright
• Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
• Release : 20 June 1966

Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape out society. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

• Author : Ana Fraile
• Publisher : Rodopi
• Release : 01 January 2007

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 present volume may be of interest for students who are not very familiar

• Author : Richard Bucci
• Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
• Release : 24 April 2015

REA's MAXnotes for Richard Wright's Native Son MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists,

• Author : Richard Wright
• Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Release : 20 June 2021

Traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman.

• Author : Robert Butler
• Publisher : Twayne Pub
• Release : 20 June 1991

An accessible introduction to some of the most important ideas developed in Plato's Symposium.

• Author : James Baldwin
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 02 November 2017

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story' James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom. 'A classic ... In a divided America, James Baldwin's fiery critiques reverberate anew'

• Author : Georgia Smith Logan
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 20 June 1961

• Author : Witi Ihimaera
• Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
• Release : 17 September 2019

This is the second volume of memoir by this remarkable Maori writer and of the living myths that inspired him at the beginning of his career. Look at him, the young man on the cover. The year is 1972, he is 28, his first book is about to be published, and he has every reason to kick up his heels. But behind that joyful smile, and the image of a writer footing it in the Pakeha world, there is another narrative, one

• Author : Harold Bloom
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release : 20 June 2021

Richard Wright is one of the greatest African-American writers of the 20th century. His masterpiece Native Son is analyzed in this volume of essays.

• Author : David Stehling
• Publisher : GRIN Verlag
• Release : 26 November 2012

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,7, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: The motif of “blindness” is an idea that recurs many times in Richard Wright’s masterpiece Native Son. Thus it has got a significant meaning to develop the novel’s general theme. This motif, next to others (such as “whiteness”), supports a certain idea: Referring to James Nagel, it is “[...] operative throughout the novel [...]” and

• Author : Richard Abcarian
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 20 June 1970

• Author : Robert Butler,Robert Olen Butler
• Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
• Release : 20 June 1991

An examination and study of the novel Native son and why it holds a singular position in American literature.

• Author : James Baldwin,Sol Stein
• Publisher : One World
• Release : 12 March 2009

James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New York editor, novelist, and playwright, Stein had suggested that Baldwin do the book and coaxed his old friend through the long and sometimes agonizing process of putting the

• Author : Keneth Kinnamon
• Publisher : Twayne Pub
• Release : 20 June 1997

This is a collection of critical essays on Richard Wright's "Native Son" by Edwin Berry Burgum, Donald B. Gibson, James Nagel, Paul N. Siegel, James A. Miller, Charles Scruggs, and other writers.

• Author : Andrew Warnes
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 24 January 2007

Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Son a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of reprinted critical essays