Black Boy

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Black Boy (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Black Boy, which was another immediate best seller, is often considered Wright's most fully realized work. Ostensibly a description of the first twenty-one years of Wright's life, the book derives its aesthetic design from two distinct but interwoven narrative skeins: the African American exodus motif, in which a character's movement from south to north suggests a flight from oppression to freedom, and the Künstlerroman, or novelistic account of the birth of the artist—in this case, a “portrait of the artist as a young black American.” In the process, Wright...

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See Also:

• Richard Wright (Censorship--Ready Reference series)
• Richard Wright (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Richard Wright (Short Fiction)
• Richard Wright (Long Fiction)
• Richard Wright (Identities and Issues)
• American Hunger (American Ethnic Writers)
• Black Boy (American Ethnic Writers)
• Black Boy (Character Profiles)
• Black Boy (Juvenile Literature)
• Black Boy (Magill Book Reviews)
• Black Boy (Masterplots Classics)
• Black Boy (Nonfiction)
• Black Boy/American Hunger (African American Literature)

See Also:

• - Black Boy summary and study guide in the eNotes.