Black Boy/American Hunger (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Wright
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1908–1943
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Richard Wright, Ella Wright, Nathan Wright, Granny Wilson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Maturation or coming of age, Language or languages, Memory, South or Southerners, Authors or writers, Prejudices or antipathies, Manners or customs, Social life, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, American Dream, Chicago, Individuality
- Locales: Arkansas, Chicago, IL, Memphis, TN, Mississippi
Form and Content
Black Boy traces young Richard Wright’s troubled journey through the violence, ignorance, and poverty of the Jim Crow South. Originally intended as a much longer work, the autobiography focuses primarily on the racist attitudes Wright encountered as he moved from rural Mississippi and Arkansas to Memphis, Tennessee. It also highlights the turmoil he suffered growing up in a supposedly cruel and often overbearing family environment. The book ends in 1925 with the nineteen-year-old Wright having begun his literary apprenticeship, determined to become a...
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