Dec 25, 2009

Black Boy | Topics for Further Study

Read a novel by Ann Petty or any other member of the "Wright School" (Chester Himes, Willard Savoy, Philip B. Kaye etc.) and compare with Black Boy. In the case of Petty's The Street, address the difference in terms of gender and the world of the urban black in the cities of post-WWII America.

What difference does it make whether one reads Black Boy or American Hunger to one's understanding of Wright's critical view of America? Does America "get off easy in Black Boy because, after all, Wright does escape to the better life in the North?

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