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- catalog contributor b5455088.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Abbreviations : key to Wright's works -- pt. I. The young Wright : nineteen years in the violent white South, 1908-1927 -- 1. A certain place : Mississippi, a climate for a genius -- 2. A definite time : 1908 -- 3. A boy in rompers : angry, bitter and brash -- 4. The broken home : trauma and the young psyche -- 5. A boy in knee-pants : reading, writing, and hunger -- 6. Jackson, Mississippi : fanatically religious relatives, bourgeois Negroes, and racist White folks -- 7. From Jackson to Memphis : big boy leaves home, almost a man -- 8. Richard Wright : a gift from the South --".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-411) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. II. Wright begins to sing his broken song : ten Chicago years, 1927-1937 -- 9. A callow youth becomes a man -- 10. A political animal -- 11. The Chicago Post Office and the young lions -- 12. "To be young, gifted, and Black" -- 13. The WPA : "A Stairway to the Stars" -- 14. The assault : punk hunting and the Bohemians -- 15. Daemonic genius and the creative process : "Margaret, if a voice speaks within you, you can live" -- 16. "I'm of tonight for New York --".
- catalog description "pt. III. Wright's Medusa head : the New York years, 1937-1947 -- 17. Medusa is a woman -- 18. A man of purpose, will, and reason -- 19. The Faustian man of success -- 20. Native Son -- 21. Fame and fortune -- 22. Marriage and the Medusa Head -- 23. Horace Cayton, Richard Wright, and the Cayton-Warner Research File -- 24. Twelve million Black voices -- 25. An interlude : three pieces -- 26. Black Boy : autobiography as social history, art, or catharsis? -- 27. Property, racism, fascism, and the war ends -- 28. Paris in the Spring --".
- catalog description "pt. IV. Wright's political paradox : ten Paris years, 1947-1957 --29. The twisted torch : "I lift my lamp beside the golden door" -- 30. The international man -- 31. The Third World : men of African and Pan-Africanism -- 32. Making the movie Native Son -- 33. "I choose exile" -- 34. The secular man and The Outsider -- 35. Black Power : African and Pan Africanism -- 36. Savage Holiday : a Freudian nightmare -- 37. Pagan Spain : the Spanish Revolution and the Roman Catholic Church -- 38. Confrontation in Asia : The Bandung Conference and The Color Curtain -- 39. The farm at Ailly, Normandy : a retreat -- 40. Présence Africaine : cultural Black Nationalism, and the role and education of the artist -- 41. White man, listen! The Weltanschauung or a Twentieth Century Man --".
- catalog description "pt. V. The return of Mephistopheles : Wright's final years, 1958-1960 -- 42. A fluttering of angel's wings -- 43. Perimeters and parameters of political intrigue -- 44. 1958 : the failure of The Long Dream and "Island of hallucinations" -- 45. 1959 : the fractured personality, a wounded man -- 46. The crumbling marriage -- 47. 1960 : Eight Men, a lifetime of stories and storytelling by a man in anguish -- 48. The mystery of Richard Wright's death -- Notes -- A bibliographical essay -- A guide to Wright studies -- Keynote speech given at the International Symposium on Richard Wright, Mississippi's native son -- Afterword : Ellen Wright v. Warner Books, Inc. and Margaret Walker.".
- catalog extent "xix, 444 p. :".
- catalog identifier "156743004X :".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Amistad : Distributed by Penguin USA,".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "African American authors 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "African American authors Biography.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS3545.R815 Z892 1993".
- catalog subject "Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Abbreviations : key to Wright's works -- pt. I. The young Wright : nineteen years in the violent white South, 1908-1927 -- 1. A certain place : Mississippi, a climate for a genius -- 2. A definite time : 1908 -- 3. A boy in rompers : angry, bitter and brash -- 4. The broken home : trauma and the young psyche -- 5. A boy in knee-pants : reading, writing, and hunger -- 6. Jackson, Mississippi : fanatically religious relatives, bourgeois Negroes, and racist White folks -- 7. From Jackson to Memphis : big boy leaves home, almost a man -- 8. Richard Wright : a gift from the South --".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. II. Wright begins to sing his broken song : ten Chicago years, 1927-1937 -- 9. A callow youth becomes a man -- 10. A political animal -- 11. The Chicago Post Office and the young lions -- 12. "To be young, gifted, and Black" -- 13. The WPA : "A Stairway to the Stars" -- 14. The assault : punk hunting and the Bohemians -- 15. Daemonic genius and the creative process : "Margaret, if a voice speaks within you, you can live" -- 16. "I'm of tonight for New York --".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. III. Wright's Medusa head : the New York years, 1937-1947 -- 17. Medusa is a woman -- 18. A man of purpose, will, and reason -- 19. The Faustian man of success -- 20. Native Son -- 21. Fame and fortune -- 22. Marriage and the Medusa Head -- 23. Horace Cayton, Richard Wright, and the Cayton-Warner Research File -- 24. Twelve million Black voices -- 25. An interlude : three pieces -- 26. Black Boy : autobiography as social history, art, or catharsis? -- 27. Property, racism, fascism, and the war ends -- 28. Paris in the Spring --".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. IV. Wright's political paradox : ten Paris years, 1947-1957 --29. The twisted torch : "I lift my lamp beside the golden door" -- 30. The international man -- 31. The Third World : men of African and Pan-Africanism -- 32. Making the movie Native Son -- 33. "I choose exile" -- 34. The secular man and The Outsider -- 35. Black Power : African and Pan Africanism -- 36. Savage Holiday : a Freudian nightmare -- 37. Pagan Spain : the Spanish Revolution and the Roman Catholic Church -- 38. Confrontation in Asia : The Bandung Conference and The Color Curtain -- 39. The farm at Ailly, Normandy : a retreat -- 40. Présence Africaine : cultural Black Nationalism, and the role and education of the artist -- 41. White man, listen! The Weltanschauung or a Twentieth Century Man --".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. V. The return of Mephistopheles : Wright's final years, 1958-1960 -- 42. A fluttering of angel's wings -- 43. Perimeters and parameters of political intrigue -- 44. 1958 : the failure of The Long Dream and "Island of hallucinations" -- 45. 1959 : the fractured personality, a wounded man -- 46. The crumbling marriage -- 47. 1960 : Eight Men, a lifetime of stories and storytelling by a man in anguish -- 48. The mystery of Richard Wright's death -- Notes -- A bibliographical essay -- A guide to Wright studies -- Keynote speech given at the International Symposium on Richard Wright, Mississippi's native son -- Afterword : Ellen Wright v. Warner Books, Inc. and Margaret Walker.".
- catalog title "Richard Wright, daemonic genius : a portrait of the man, a critical look at his work / Margaret Walker.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".