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Fraught encounters.(evaluation of essays)(Editorial)
The editors thank Jose Limon and Adam Newton for their assistance in selecting the essays for this issue.
The three essays in this issue deal with the central contemporary critical issue of the response of alienated consciousness to the dominant culture.
Relyea explores the attempt of the significantly named protagonist of Richard Wright's The Outsider, Cross Damon, to evade the entrapment of the externally defining "gaze," noting that Sartre probably picked up the existentialist concept of the gaze from Native Son. Cross's first murder is literally motivated by having been recognized as he who no longer wishes to be. Wright shows how, as a black, Cross is exemplary of the Western project of choosing a self of a limitless freedom of thought and values overcoming traditional constraints only to be thwarted by enmeshments in the irrationalities of race and lust for power.
Lawtoo sees Rodriguez in Hunger of Memory as caught between the public, assimilated identity of Rich-heard and the private, family, and ethnically centered one of Ricardo, but Lawtoo argues against the prevailing view that Rodriguez unambiguously makes the politically disreputable ...
- Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays.
- Magazine article from: African American Review Smith, Virginia Whatley March 22, 1997 700+ words
Arnold Rampersad, ed. Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood...Library of America edition of the works of Richard Wright, has added another dimension to Richard Wright scholarship with the publication of Richard...
- Richard Wright and Racial Discourse.(Review)
- Magazine article from: African American Review Portelli, Alessandro September 22, 1999 700+ words
...Sapienza" Yoshinobu Hakutani's Richard Wright and Racial Discourse is a new swing of the pendulum in Richard Wright criticism. For several decades...reading of the first part of the Richard Wright canon. Through comparative readings...
- The vanguard of modernity: Richard Wright's The Outsider.(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language Relyea, Sarah September 22, 2006 700+ words
(1) When Richard Wright became nationally known through the publication of Native Son in...would continue to grow. As I argue, Wright's black outsider, Cross Damon, embodies the forces of alienation that were created by the modern...
- Richard Wright's 'The Long Dream' as racial and sexual discourse.
- Magazine article from: African American Review Hakutani, Yoshinobu June 22, 1996 700+ words
...physical toughness in battling against racism and achieving the independence of other Wright heroes such as Bigger Thomas and Cross Damon.(1) To reassess The Long Dream would require a new approach - not to its social and cultural backgrounds, which are history...
- Racial oppression and alienation in Richard Wright's "Down by the Riverside"...
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly Hakutani, Yoshinobu March 22, 1993 700+ words
...Sartre, and de Beauvoir.(1) More recently, critics have demonstrated Camus's influences on Wright in his conception of Cross Damon. Upon closer examination of Wright's The Outsider and Camus's The Stranger, however, one would recognize some of the...
- Outsider, The
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart January 1, 1986 700+ words
Outsider, The, novel by Richard Wright , published in 1953. Cross Damon, a black man who works in the Chicago post office, is caught in a subway accident but escapes without serious injury, though...
- The Critical Response to Richard Wright.
- Magazine article from: African American Review Weiss, M. Lynn June 22, 1997 700+ words
...Butler, ed. The Critical Response to Richard Wright. Westport: Greenwood, 1995. 199 pp...Library of America published two volumes of Richard Wright's work and prompted a Richard Wright renaissance. The early and late volumes...
- Works of Richard Wright: Bibliography
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wright, Richard January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Bibliography For the most complete listing of Richard Wright's own works the student should consult "Richard Wright (1908-1960)," by Michel Fabre...was reprinted in Constance Webb, Richard Wright, A Biography, New York: G. P...
