The Politics of Richard Wright (eBook)

Perspectives on Resistance

Jane Anna Gordon, Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh (Herausgeber)

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2018
386 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7517-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native 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.In The 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 Wright is an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy.

Autor

lt;P>Jane Anna Gordon is associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and former president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2013-2016). She is author or editor of several books, including Creolizing Political Theory and Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement.

Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh is professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and former editor of the journal Polity. He has authored or edited several books, among them Social Movements in Politics, as well as scholarly articles on John Steinbeck and Norman Mailer.

Inhalt

Introduction'I Have Seen Black hands'Wright's Afromodern Search for Political FreedomRichard Wright and the Critique of Class TheoryAlternative Readings of Bigger ThomasRichard Wright's Mission: Initiating a Politics of the HumanRichard Wright and Black Women: Imagining the Feminine in The OutsiderMasculinity, Misogyny, and the Limits of Racial CommunityHe's a Rapist, Even When He's Not: Richard Wright's Account of Black Male Vulnerability in the Raping of Willie McGeeBehind the McGee CaseSeizing Freedom with Simone de BeauvoirRevisiting Richard Wright in Ghana: Black Radicalism and the Dialectics of DiasporaPsychology and Black Liberation in Richard Wright's Black Power (1954)Blueprint for Negro LiteratureFloating Facts on a Sea of Emotion: The Literary Journalism of Richard Wright'Many Dark Mirrors in Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices'Richard Wright: The 'Nature' of Politics, the 'Politics' of NatureJoe Louis Uncovers DynamiteNotes toward a Political Economy of Life and Death: Reading Richard Wright with Frantz FanonReading Richard Wright Beyond the Carceral State: The Politics of Refusal in Black Radical ImaginationSlavery Continued, Freedom Sought: Wright's Political Intellectual Journey

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 3 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Colonialism • communism • essay collection • gendered forms of oppression • James Baldwin • Masculinity • neoslavery • political opinions • political options • Postcolonial politics • Refusal • Slavery • social connectivity • Social Criticism • Violence • web du bois capitalism • Wright
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-7517-8 / 0813175178
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7517-1 / 9780813175171