Richard Wright

Richard Wright Criticism

• Wright, Richard (Vol. 14)
  • Introduction
  • On Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston: Notes toward a Balancing of Love and Hatred
  • The Black Explosion
  • Caged Misery
  • Native Son
  • Rebels and Victims: The Fiction of Richard Wright and Bernard Malamud
• Wright, Richard (Vol. 21)
  • Introduction
  • Richard Wright Looks Back
  • Deep-South Memoir
  • A Dramatic Autobiography
  • The Portrait of a Man Searching
  • Either Weep or Laugh
  • Wright's Continuing Protest
  • Richard Wright: A Word of Farewell
  • Alas, Poor Richard: 'Eight Men'
  • Articulated Nightmare
  • The Immediate Misfortunes of Widespread Literacy
  • Dreiser to Farrell to Wright
  • The World and the Jug
  • Richard Wright and the Sixties
  • The Art of Richard Wright
  • The Lost Potential of Richard Wright
  • 'The Outsider': Revision of an Idea
  • 'Lawd Today': Richard Wright's Apprentice Novel
  • Richard Wright's Successful Failure: A New Look at 'Uncle Tom's Children'
  • 'I Thought I Knew These People': Richard Wright & the Afro-American Literary Tradition
  • Black Writing and Black Nationalism: Four Generations
  • Wright's 'Lawd Today': The American Dream Festering in the Sun
  • Richard Wright and Albert Camus: The Literature of Revolt
• Wright, Richard (Vol. 9)
• Wright, Richard (Vol. 1)
• Wright, Richard (Vol. 3)
• Wright, Richard (Vol. 4)
• Wright, Richard
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • The Metamorphosis of Richard Wright's Black Boy
    • Bigger Thomas's Quest for Voice and Audience in Richard Wright's Native Son
    • Richard Wright's Experiment in Naturalism and Satire: Lawd Today
    • The Critical Background and a New Perspective
    • The Social Significance of Wright's Bigger Thomas
    • Symbols in the Sewer: A Symbolic Renunciation of Symbols in Richard Wright's ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’
    • Richard Wright and the Blues Connection
    • Native Sons and Foreign Daughters
    • The Problematic Texts of Richard Wright
    • The Horror and the Glory: Wright's Portrait of the Artist in Black Boy and American Hunger
    • ‘Last Call to the West’: Richard Wright's The Color Curtain
    • Nature, Haiku, and ‘This Other World’
    • The Power of Place: Richard Wright's Native Son
    • The Horror of Bigger Thomas: The Perception of Form without Face in Richard Wright's Native Son
    • ‘The Reds Are in the Bible Room’: The Bible and Political Activism in Richard Wight's Uncle Tom's Children
    • Invented by Horror: The Gothic and African American Literary Ideology in Native Son
    • The Good Women, Bad Women, Prostitutes and Slaves of Pagan Spain: Richard Wright's Look Beyond the Phallocentric Self
  • Further Reading