The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright's Archaeology of Death

by Abdul R. JanMohamed

Book Overview

During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the "relationship of the American Negro to the American scene was] essentially violent," and that he could deny neither the violence he had witnessed nor his own existence as a product of racial violence. Abdul R. JanMohamed provides extraordinary insight into Wright's position in this first study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822334887
• ISBN13: 9780822334880
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"