Wright, Richard (Vol. 4) - Wright, Richard 1908–1960
Wright, Richard 1908–1960
Wright, a Black American novelist and short story writer, was one of this country's most highly respected spokesmen for Black problems and attitudes.
Wright's short fiction of the 1930s is essentially an imaginative re-creation of the atmosphere and milieu of his childhood experiences. The fears, frustrations, and pent-up angers of the Southern Negro are posed against the sadism of the white Southerner. Until, in two of the stories, Marxism enters the lives of some of his Negroes and whites, there are no influences outside of Southern culture to alter an environment generally hostile to the black man. Each story represents a Negro reaction to the white would during a moment of crisis and, usually, of violence. Furthermore, the stories collected in Uncle Tom's Children are so arranged that each marks a progressive increase in resistance to their lot on the part of Negro characters or groups. "Uncle Tom's Children"...
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