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• catalog abstract ""The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever," wrote Irving Howe in 1963. Few critics have disputed this statement, and most would agree that the impact of Richard Wright's writings on American culture comes not just from his technique and style, but also from the particular effect his ideas and attitudes have had on American life. In an effort to gauge the extent of Wright's influence, Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes his work both as art and as a discourse on race. Taking into consideration the social and cultural milieu of Wright's time, Hakutani compares and contrasts Wright's works with those by other writers dealing with similar subjects. For examples, he discusses Native Son in comparison with Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and in contrast with Dreiser's An American Tragedy. In a similar vein he weighs The Outsider, a controversial novel among critics, against Camus's The Stranger. And The Man Who Lived Underground is read as an existentialist work that contains elements of Zen philosophy. Hakutani also studies Wright's neglected works of nonfiction, examining how they place Wright's diverse racial, cultural, economic, and political ideas within the context of his American, African American, European, Pan-African, and Asian experiences. Whereas Wright is primarily concerned with European colonialism in Black Power, religion and Catholicism come under scrutiny in Pagan Spain, and The Color Curtain brings together all of these issues. Hakutani concludes his book with a chapter on Wright's poetics, determining that Wright followed Japanese aesthetics, and that the best of his four thousand haiku marvelously reflect the spirit of nature and, occasionally, Zen.".
• catalog contributor b9311469.
• catalog created "c1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "c1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
• catalog description ""The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever," wrote Irving Howe in 1963. Few critics have disputed this statement, and most would agree that the impact of Richard Wright's writings on American culture comes not just from his technique and style, but also from the particular effect his ideas and attitudes have had on American life. In an effort to gauge the extent of Wright's influence, Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes his work both as art and as a discourse on race.".
• catalog description "1. Lawd Today, an Apprentice Novel -- 2. Uncle Tom's Children, Earlier Fiction -- 3. Native Son and American Culture -- 4. The City: Quest for Freedom -- 5. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth -- 6. The Outsider, Racial Discourse, and French Existentialism -- 7. Black Power: Race, Politics, and African Culture -- 8. The Color Curtain, Multiculturalism, and American Racial Issues -- 9. Pagan Spain: Cultural and Racial Discourse -- 10. Eight Men, Later Fiction -- 11. The Long Dream as Racial and Sexual Discourse -- 12. Nature, Haiku, and "This Other World."".
• catalog description "Hakutani also studies Wright's neglected works of nonfiction, examining how they place Wright's diverse racial, cultural, economic, and political ideas within the context of his American, African American, European, Pan-African, and Asian experiences. Whereas Wright is primarily concerned with European colonialism in Black Power, religion and Catholicism come under scrutiny in Pagan Spain, and The Color Curtain brings together all of these issues. Hakutani concludes his book with a chapter on Wright's poetics, determining that Wright followed Japanese aesthetics, and that the best of his four thousand haiku marvelously reflect the spirit of nature and, occasionally, Zen.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-303) and index.".
• catalog description "Taking into consideration the social and cultural milieu of Wright's time, Hakutani compares and contrasts Wright's works with those by other writers dealing with similar subjects. For examples, he discusses Native Son in comparison with Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and in contrast with Dreiser's An American Tragedy. In a similar vein he weighs The Outsider, a controversial novel among critics, against Camus's The Stranger. And The Man Who Lived Underground is read as an existentialist work that contains elements of Zen philosophy.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 312 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Richard Wright and racial discourse.".
• catalog identifier "0826210597 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Richard Wright and racial discourse.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "c1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
• catalog relation "Richard Wright and racial discourse.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "813/.52 20".
• catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
• catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "PS3545.R815 Z666 1996".
• catalog subject "Race relations in literature.".
• catalog subject "Racism in literature.".
• catalog subject "Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 Political and social views.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Lawd Today, an Apprentice Novel -- 2. Uncle Tom's Children, Earlier Fiction -- 3. Native Son and American Culture -- 4. The City: Quest for Freedom -- 5. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth -- 6. The Outsider, Racial Discourse, and French Existentialism -- 7. Black Power: Race, Politics, and African Culture -- 8. The Color Curtain, Multiculturalism, and American Racial Issues -- 9. Pagan Spain: Cultural and Racial Discourse -- 10. Eight Men, Later Fiction -- 11. The Long Dream as Racial and Sexual Discourse -- 12. Nature, Haiku, and "This Other World."".
• catalog title "Richard Wright and racial discourse / Yoshinobu Hakutani.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".