The Art of Richard Wright

by Edward Margolies

Richard Wright's major themes in both fiction and nonfiction -- freedom, existential horror, and black nationalism--are here discussed for the first time in a book-length critical work. Although Wright's fame never diminished in Europe, at the time of his death in 1960 he had long since been dismissed in America as a phenomenally successful Negro author of the thirties and forties whose "protest" literature had subsequently become unfashionable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809303450
• ISBN13: 9780809303458
• Release Date: March 1969
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 8.3"