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This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of Black Boy written by W.E.B. Du Bois, Lionel Trilling, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison, and eight critical essays. These essays address a range of topics including the circumstances of the book's original publication in 1945; the relationship between the novel and Wright's actual biography; the African-American autobiographical tradition; the influences of various writers and literary movements on Black Boy; and the impact of African-American vernacular and oral performance on Wright's autobiography.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger)
• Subtitle: A Casebook
• Author: William L. Andrews
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780195157727
• ISBN: 0195157729
• ID: 04515801
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 287 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 139 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. August 2003

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