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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...
- Richard Wright's freedom: the existentialism of 'Uncle Tom's Children.'
- Magazine article from: The Midwest Quarterly Jaye, James R. June 22, 1994 700+ words
...has always seemed comfortable to label the early fiction of Richard Wright as naturalistic. In his autobiography Black Boy, Wright...1953). Eagerly awaited, the novel tells the story of Cross Damon, a young black tom between his pregnant 15-year-old...
- 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...
- 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...
- Richard Wright's long journey from Gorky to Dostoevsky. (Maxim Gorky and Fyodor...
- Magazine article from: African American Review Peterson, Dale E. September 22, 1994 700+ words
...reconstruction of a usable national identity, Richard Wright, like Maxim Gorky, appears to be...Even in a time of relative neglect, Richard Wright continues to occupy a distinctive and...liudi) of his early fiction. But Richard Wright's black-and-blue sensibility...
- Richard Wright: The Life and Times. (nonfiction reviews).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review Fleming, Robert January 1, 2002 700+ words
Richard Wright: The Life And Times by Hazel Rowley...announced that there was yet another Richard Wright biography in the works, many critics...researched: Rowley examined 136 boxes of Richard Wright's archival material at Yale University...
- Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present.
- Magazine article from: African American Review Hakutani, Yoshinobu December 22, 1995 700+ words
...Alienation and Creativity in the Fiction of Richard Wright," an enlightening essay about self...sign of modernism. John Reilly's "Richard Wright and the Art of Non-Fiction: Stepping...American Fiction (1948); Ellison, "Richard Wright's Blues" (1953); Baldwin...
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