Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger): A Casebook

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195157729
• ISBN13: 9780195157727
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.2"