What Does Richard Wright Learn From His Experiences in the Excerpt You Read From Black Boy?

RICHARD WRIGHT - Black BOY
A Instructor's Guide for Secondary
and Post Secondary Educators
by Jerry M. Ward

• Introduction
• Richard Wright: An Overview
• Questions and Activities Before Viewing
• Questions and Activities After Viewing
• History: Questions and Activities
• Instruction: Questions and Activities
• Literature: Questions and Activities
• Psychology: Questions and Activities
• Sociology
• Political Scientific discipline/Cultural Studies: Questions and Activities
• Bibliographies
  
  

INTRODUCTION

Although RICHARD WRIGHT: Blackness BOY focuses mainly on the life and history of an internationally acclaimed American author, the visual and audio components of the documentary richly contextualize the literature that Wright produced. In that sense, the documentary synthesizes a not bad amount of historical, social and cultural information almost the twentieth century. It tin can be used to prompt extensive discussions, to stimulate students to undertake special research projects, to write papers or combine the arts and/or cultural knowledge into a learning feel.

Since the documentary is 90 minutes in length, planning and scheduling viewing fourth dimension for students is essential and so that the documentary can be viewed in either i or two course periods.

Teachers are encouraged to view and discuss the documentary together and decide whether it is more efficient to utilise it in pedagogy one discipline or if students might profit more from discussions that are not field of study bound.

The Teacher's Guide is designed for those teachers who want to use RICHARD WRIGHT: BLACK BOY to enhance the experiences of their students every bit they explore many and diverse schoolhouse subjects.

The guide is not designed to be exhaustive. Information technology provides ideas for student activities and assignments, bibliographies of Wright's work, and a selected listing of background sources. Some older materials are included to suggest the land of scholarship and thinking about issues inside Wright's lifetime or as reminders of what works might have influenced his thinking. In making assignments, it is suggested that the teacher add together current manufactures and books that are deemed appropriate.

The pre-viewing questions and activities are designed to help students proceeds groundwork noesis. The postal service-viewing student assignments focus on ways Wright's works mentioned in the documentary can be used to promote broader inquiries amid the disciplines. Considering the documentary contains scenes that portray Negro lynchings and an African woman's bare breasts, it is recommended that teachers and administrators beneath the college level review the program before showing it to students.

Questions and activities are provided in the post-obit disciplines: History, Instruction, Psychology, Literature, Sociology, and Political Science/Cultural Studies. The bibliography completes the guide. Teachers are encouraged to adapt the suggested questions and activities to the appropriate class level and developmental level of their students.

RICHARD WRIGHT: AN OVERVIEW

Richard Nathaniel Wright, the son of an illiterate sharecropper father and a schoolhouse teacher mother, was built-in on September 4, 1908, on a Mississippi plantation some twenty miles from Natchez, in the community of Roxie. His parentage is emblematic: his father may be seen as the soil, the concrete in life; his mother as the world of ideas, the abstractions that shape our sense of reality. The trajectory of Wright'south life from his birth in Mississippi to his decease in Paris on November 28, l960, at 52 years of age, marks a long and unfinished quest for the liberation of the listen and the human spirit.

What seems to have driven Wright's quest might be described equally the multiple dimensions of hunger. During his boyhood, Wright'due south hunger was often physical due to his father's desertion of the family when Wright was only seven years old. In fact, the absence of food and of his father became interchangeable in the boy'south heed. When, as a man of thirty-seven, Wright reflected on his blackness childhood and youth in the Deep South, he exposed his hurting in words that are haunting: "Equally the days slid past the image of my father became associated with my pangs of hunger, and whenever I felt hunger I thought of him with a deep biological bitterness." The bitterness, however, is not only directed confronting his biological father but also confronting a whole order that provided grounds for hunger. The painful noesis that in the South of the early twentieth century, the ceiling of a brilliant BLACK BOY's possibilities was indeed low, thus creating a vast need for fulfillment in Wright's young life. Wright'south hunger to develop as a whole human being was social, psychological, and spiritual. This hunger to exist, to know, and to empathize was pervasive, formative, and motivating throughout his lifetime.

Wright's hunger could non be satisfied by the success of Uncle Tom'south Children (1938), the fame that came with the publication of Native Son (1940), or Blackness Boy (1945). These books fabricated Wright a spokesperson for an entire generation of Black Americans.

Wright could write passionately and eloquently about the pregnant of suffering in the lives of oppressed and exploited people because that suffering was an integral office of his own life. Wright's material success simply seemed to intensify his sensation that hunger of the spirit is implacable. The Communist Party had been the merely ane to have a deep interest in Richard Wright'south life and had at in one case offered to teach him to write.

Every bit ane views RICHARD WRIGHT: BLACK BOY, one should be very attentive to what is revealed about Wright's sustained involvement in language and in the affairs of the world. Wright was an particularly bully observer and recorder of the human condition in the twentieth century, and his mode of engaging issues and ideas was that of the participant-observer.

In the books that followed Black Boy, Wright expresses his deep interest in the large questions of authority, power, and freedom. Similar Cantankerous Damon, the hero of The Outsider (1953), Wright himself had existential longings. If one understands this novel as one segment of Wright'southward intellectual autobiography, it is easier to empathize why and how he situated himself in not-fiction works and why he was then fascinated by modern psychology in Lawd Today, Barbarous Holiday, and The Long Dream. Whether Wright was analyzing the independence motion and African culture in Black Power (1954), reporting on a conference at which Asian and African nations debated what should be their future in the global guild in The Color Curtain (1956), or examining the political and religious intricacies of Catholic culture in Pagan Spain (1957), Wright was always the engaged writer, the brother in suffering. It is the ethos of Wright's phonation, his ability to exist both victim and asserter, that insures his dominance and is the nearly indelible quality of his literary legacy.

QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES Before VIEWING

1. Richard Wright was born in 1908, and died in 1960. What significant developments or major changes occurred in the sciences, American government, economics, politics, literature, technology, and the arts between these dates?
2. What amendments were added to the U.s.a. Constitution during the period 1908 to 1960?
   
3. What major changes occurred in race relations between l908 and 1960? Especially address those that occurred in 1954 and later.
4. Interview people who were built-in in the 1920'due south and 1930's. If available, use the Internet for interviews. How do the interviewees call back and describe social and cultural changes prior to 1960?
5. Interview family unit members or others, born before 1960, who have lived in Mississippi, Chicago, New York, Paris, or Due west Africa. Inquire about the bug that were of special importance to them. Do whatever remember the Neat Depression?
6. What did the term "Jim Crow" mean in the South?
7. What economic and social conditions may have encouraged large numbers of blacks from the South to drift to urban areas in the northern and western parts of the U.South. in the early twentieth century? Did this migration have an impact on the S as a region?
8. What was the touch on of Globe War I on the Southern economy? Was the impact of World War Ii radically different?
   
9. Discuss or write a study on the Harlem Renaissance. Who were some of the major writers and artists during this period? How does the Harlem Renaissance differ from what has been called the Jazz Age? Were basic American values modified by changes in music, dress, and entertainment during the flow of the Harlem Renaissance?
10. What are the major differences betwixt plantations earlier the Civil War and those that nonetheless existed in the twentieth century?
11. What is sharecropping? Is the analogy between economic slavery and sharecropping a fair one? Why?
12. Who was H.L.Mencken? Why did many Southerners dislike him?
13. Define the following terms: socialism, fascism, commercialism, democracy, colonialism, marxism, communism. What philosophical and political beliefs are embedded in each of these terms? Talk over how ane might become disillusioned with each of the in a higher place philosophies and/or political belief systems.
14. Who was Karl Marx? Place several of his major works. Why did his theories about social system and the relation between labor and capital have international entreatment in the twentieth century?
15. In what areas of American life did Communism have the strongest influence betwixt the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II? What was the reaction of the U.S. to the 1918 Bolshevik Revolution?
16. What does the term "alienation" mean? How is information technology used in psychology? How is it used in discussions of political behaviors?
17. What is the image of African-American civilization today and how has it inverse over the last fifty years? What seems non to have inverse?
18. Ascertain the discussion "ghetto." What is the historical significant of the term? Do we use information technology appropriately today in discussions of urban life?
19. What is the image of African-American culture today and how has it changed over the terminal fifty years? What seems not to have changed?

QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES Subsequently VIEWING

1. Richard Wright was born in 1908, and Eudora Welty was built-in in 1909. Both spent their formative years in Jackson, Mississippi. Compare Wright's delineation of his childhood in Black Boy with Welty'south reflections in One Writer'southward Ancestry. What images of a Southern urban community emerge from the two readings? Create a cartoon, painting or iii dimensional representation of your image.
2. After reading Blackness Boy, write your own autobiography. In what ways are the ascendant images in Wright's autobiography like or dissimilar to those in your own?
3. Identify the following people who are mentioned in the documentary: Langston Hughes, Benjamin Davis, J.Edgar Hoover, James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, W.Eastward.B. DuBois, Orson Welles, Margaret Walker Alexander, Joyce Ann Joyce, William Faulkner, John Reed, Jack Conroy, Studs Terkel, Arna Bontemps, Kwame Nkrumah, Katherine Dunham, Frank Yerby.
4. What impressed you the almost almost the documentary? Write a poem, story, or narrative near what had the greatest touch on on you. Illustrate your work.
5. Read some of Wright's short fictional works. Write a i act play based on one of these stories or dramatize a section of Native Son.
6. Practice you lot call back that growing upward in the South during Richard Wright's time was better or worse than today? Give some reasons for your opinion.
7. Have you visited whatever of the places mentioned in the program? Contrast what you saw when yous visited and what y'all saw on the program.
8. What reasons tin can y'all give for Wright joining the Communist Party and what reasons tin can yous requite for Wright leaving the Party and moving to Paris?
9. Assemble a collection of newspaper clippings and mag articles well-nigh changes that are occurring on the African continent. Discuss these stories in relation to the segment of the moving-picture show that deals with Wright's visit to Africa.
10. Write a paper on criminal offence and violence from a teenager's perspective. Compare your ideas with the stories of boyish offense and violence in Native Son and Rite of Passage.
11. Picket broadcasts of trials on Idiot box and read the trial department of Native Son. Report to your class on the difference between contemporary court procedures and those represented in Wright's novel.
12. Write a cursory paper on American writers who accept chosen to live in foreign countries. How were their choices similar or different from those Richard Wright fabricated in choosing exile?
13. If you have admission to the Internet, contact students in several of the countries that Richard Wright visited. Inquire them how familiar they are with Wright's works or the places mentioned in the documentary.

HISTORY: QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Native Son, Blackness Boy, 12 One thousand thousand Black Voices, The Long Dream, Uncle Tom's Children, Black Power, The Outsider, and White Man Listen! are Richard Wright'due south works that are releavent in the study of history.

1. Wright subtitled 12 Million Black Voices, "A Folk History of the Negro in the United States." What is a folk history? What are the implications for how nosotros came to sympathise history if Wright'due south volume is considered a valid example?
   
2. In what way might Wright's Black Ability, which does non pretend to be history, challenge and supplement official histories of the Gold Declension (Ghana)?
3. Discuss what uses a historian might make of RICHARD WRIGHT: BLACK Boy. Compile a curt bibliography of reference works that would help a historian probe more deeply into the events that can only be sketched in the documentary.
4. Write a cursory research report on American Communism from 1920 to 1945. How was the growth of the Communist Party in the The states made easier by the mood of the country during the Great Depression years? How active were Communists in the labor movement or in efforts to achieve racial justice?
5. Read The Long Dream and examine to what extent it could be used for understanding southern history just prior to the beginning of the Ceremonious Rights Motion. What caution must be observed in using fiction to understand history? Debate the validity of using fiction past such southern writers equally William Faulkner, Ellen Douglas, Eudora Welty, and Shelby Foote to proceeds new perspectives on history.

EDUCATION: QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Richard Wright'south works that may be used in educational studies: Native Son, 12 Million Blackness Voices, BLACK Boy, The Long Dream, Rite of Passage, The Outsider, Blackness Power, Pagan Espana, The Colour Drape, and White Man, Listen!

1. Discuss the result of the lack of educational opportunities for black Southerners equally these are reflected in Uncle Tom's Children and in Wright'southward autobiography Black Boy. Do these results still influence in some style African-American attitudes about public education in the Due south? Explain.
2. In 12 One thousand thousand Black Voices (1941), Wright noted that even if black schools "were open up for the full term our children would not have the fourth dimension to go." To what peculiar feature of black instruction in the rural Southward of the early twentieth century was Wright referring? What forces led to the eradication of this peculiar feature?
3. Read Wright's essay "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" in Uncle Tom's Children. Hash out how the nature of Wright's pedagogy and social norms might illustrate the tension that nevertheless exists between the ideals of classroom education and what students actually learn in the world beyond the school.
4. How does Wright depict political education in Pagan Espana?
5. Examine Wright'due south depiction of adolescents and anti-social behavior in Rite of Passage. Does this book provide a frame of reference for a word of the reasons for high dropout rates in many contemporary schoolhouse systems?
6. Use Black Power and The Color Curtain every bit focal points for a forum on instruction in former colonies in Africa. Involve African students and students from so-called 3rd World countries who are attending schools in the United States. Have nosotros freed ourselves from the biases implicit in Wright'southward commentaries?
7. Consider that Black Ability, Pagan Espana, White Human being, Listen!, and The Color Pall were not received favorably by critics or the reading public. If hostile reviews were based on the claim that Wright lacked the insights and authority to brand pronouncements about foreign cultures, what kinds of special training might be most helpful for those who might eventually teach in foreign countries? Can Wright's books help us to identify danger points in the assumptions upon which American or Western education residuum?

LITERATURE: QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

The Richard Wright Newsletter" (Richard Wright Circle, 480 Nightingale Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115) provides discussions of new developments in Wright scholarship and contains an almanac bibliography.

1. Write an cess of RICHARD WRIGHT: Blackness Male child with regard to its usefulness in showing connections betwixt the facts of a writer's life and his works.
2. Compare Blackness Male child with Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody. Despite the differences in age and gender, practice both writers advise that a sense of place has special importance for the African-American author from the South?
3. Compare Black Boy with Hunger of Retentiveness by Richard Rodriguez. Write a paper on how an autobiographer, considered to be in a minority group, uses diverse strategies to control self-representation against the constraints of ethnicity and language.
4. In 1940, the year Native Son was published, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Examine the critical reception both of these novels received. Discuss why these as compelling books occupy rather dissimilar places in American literary standards.
5. Compare the modest number of Wright'southward haiku in print with classical Japanese examples of this poetic form. Explain the aesthetic difference between Wright's poems and those he might have used as models. Write some haiku of your own.
6. Black Power, Pagan Spain, The Color Pall, and White Human being, Listen! are some of Wright's works. Compare the prose in Wright's early essays from the late 1930's and early 1940'due south with the prose of one of the books listed higher up. What remarkable differences do you notice?
7. Examine Uncle Tom's Children, Black Boy, and Native Son and try to identify what might be called existential elements. To what in Wright'due south life experiences might we attribute his affinity for existentialism?
8. Clips from the flick versions (1951 and 1987) of Native Son are used in the documentary. View these movie versions later reading the novel. How does the modification of the plot in these movie versions affect your regard for Wright's novel?

PSYCHOLOGY: QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Native Son, Black Boy, Rite of Passage, Lawd Today!, The Outsider, The Long Dream, Uncle Tom's Children, Eight Men, Barbarous Holiday, Black Power, and The Color Curtain are some of Richard Wright's works that may be used in the written report of psychology:

1. What do Wright'south writings reveal about his understanding of African-American psychology?
2. Talk over the terms "paranoia" and "paranoid." Practise you think Wright could have suffered from delusions of persecution? Why or why not?
3. Was Wright depressed? What symptoms of depression, if any, did Wright showroom in his writings?
4. Ane portion of Wright's original Blackness Male child manuscript was published every bit the essay, "I Tried to be a Communist" in The God That Failed (New York: Harper, 1950). Discuss how Wright weighs his alienation from Communism with his basic religion in the principles of Marxism. Explore the special topics of Wright's alienation from organized faith in Black Boy and from certain aspects of West African culture in Blackness Power.
5. Discuss Wright's depiction of adolescent psychology in Rite of Passage. How does it differ from his depiction of the same in Native Son and The Long Dream? How practise you account for the differences?
6. Discuss the nature of prejudice and how prejudice was and continues to be an exceptionally powerful force in American life. What does the documentary enable you to discern about Wright's responses to prejudice?
7. Do you call up Wright blamed others for his problems? Do you recall information technology is psychologically healthy to identify arraign on others? What is the salubrious way to handle bug, feelings, and fears both existent and imagined? Could Wright have handled his problems in another manner?
8. Define the psychological term "projection." Exercise you lot think Wright projected his own feelings on to others? Is projection a defense force mechanism? Of what was Wright agape?
9. Debate whether the traumas Wright reports that he suffered during his childhood and youth are responsible for his substantially negative portrayals of women in his fiction.
10. Many artists, writers, musicians, poets, actors, etc., accept dealt with personal pain through their artistic endeavors. Discuss the negative and positive aspects of going through pain in this manner. Hash out what human needs are met by using this mode of dealing with problems. Did Wright deal with his personal hurting through his writings? What personal needs did this satisfy for him?

Sociology

Black Urban center: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern Urban center (1945) by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Native Son, Black Boy, The Outsider, Lawd Today!, Rite of Passage, Uncle Tom's Children, 12 Meg Black Voices, and The Long Dream are relevant in discussions of the sociology of the South, race, and culture:

1. What blazon of society was present in Paris for immature black artists and writers that was not present in the Usa during the same fourth dimension? Has this changed?
   
2. What reasons tin you lot give for the Communist political political party encouraging Richard Wright'southward efforts and offering to teach him how to write?
3. What description of gangs does Wright provide in Native Son and Rite of Passage? Do y'all discern whatever subtle distinctions in his portrayal? Is the concept of a gang radically different fifty years later on?
4. Review several sociological studies of Chicago prior to 1950. How do they describe what might be understood as the parallel yet connected societies inhabited past blacks and whites in an urban environment? What insights about this miracle can be gained from reading Wright's introduction to Blackness Metropolis?
5. Write a critique of the lawyer'southward defense of Bigger Thomas in Native Son. What are the weaknesses of trying to make a case on the grounds of criminal causation? How are the specifics of sociological investigations transformed by the language used in the courtroom or by the lawyer's rhetorical strategies?
6. Discuss the caution that should be used in reading fiction that incorporates sociological data. Apply Native Son and Rite of Passage as test cases for give-and-take.
7. How does Wright care for the subject area of accommodation in Blackness Boy and The Long Dream? To what degree of cooperation and domination does he describe attention?
8. How did role expectation and role conflict seem to function in Wright's life? How are they reflected in his autobiographical writings and in his fiction?
9. Is the frequently used term "ghetto" both an accurate and adequate clarification of urban black communities in various regions of the U.s.a.?
10. Describe the social class to which Wright belonged at diverse periods in his life. What does the documentary illustrate about social mobility? How was Wright's life effected?
11. Examine The Long Dream for its portrayal of Southern blackness middle grade life. Does Wright utilise stereotypes or is his treatment consequent with sociological descriptions prior to 1960?
12. Exercise you remember the Communist Political party wanted to control Wright'south writings? Did they desire him to go out the Party? Did Wright recall that the Communist Party should fight more for the plight of the Negro race? Discuss your ideas.
13. What happened to Wright's finances after he moved to Paris? Discuss how being black and poor or white and poor in the U.s. would be different in Paris.

POLITICAL Scientific discipline/CULTURAL STUDIES: QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

For the purpose of cultural studies, all of Wright'due south works are relevant. For studies in political science, special attention should exist given to Native Son, The Outsider, Uncle Tom'due south Children, 8 Men, and Rite of Passage.

1. Why did Communism ultimately fail equally an alternative political motility in this country?
2. Hash out what political conditions in the United States made Communism attractive to Richard Wright and a number of other black intellectuals. Why did Wright leave the Communist Party?
3. After viewing the documentary, examine the term "credo." How did the program represent the ideological dimensions of Wright's life and work? What distinction should be drawn between ideology and cadre political values (criteria past which people brand political decisions and evaluation)?
4. What features of political economy in urban areas did Wright seem to be about concerned about in his piece of work?
5. What does the documentary urge u.s. to consider about the importance of race and form in the study of international politics? How did Wright's sense of himself as a man of the Westward compromise his potency to speak for non-Western people?
6. Wright attracted unusual attention from authorities agencies in the United States, Britain, and France. Consider the nature of politics during the Common cold War. Why might Wright's work have been seen as politically threatening?
7. Hash out to what degree the whole of Wright'due south works constitutes a model for an individual'due south written report of culture and change.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

I. Richard Wright: Master Works

Fiction

• Uncle Tom's Children. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938; HarperCollins, 1993.
• Native Son.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940; HarperCollins, 1993.
• The Outsider. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953; HarperCollins, 1993.
• Fell Holiday. New York: Avon Books, 1954; Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
• The Long Dream. New York: Doubleday, 1958.
• Viii Men. Cleveland: World, 1961.
• Lawd Today!New York: Avon Books, 1963; Boston: Northeastern Academy Printing, 1993.
• Rite of Passage. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.

Nonfiction

• Twelve Meg Black Voices.New York: Viking Press, 1941.
• Black Male child.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945; HarperCollins, 1993.
• Blackness Power.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954.
• The Color Mantle.Cleveland: World, 1954; Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
• Pagan Spain. New York: Harper & Row, 1957.
• White Man, Listen!New York: Doubleday, 1957.
• American Hunger.New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

II. Richard Wright: Secondary Sources

Bibliography

• Fabre, Michel and Charles T. Davis. Richard Wright: A Chief Bibliography. Boston: G. G. Hall, 1982. A bibliography of Wright'southward published and unpublished works in the Richard Wright Archive, James Weldon Johnson Collection of Afro-American Literature, Beineke Library, Yale Academy.
• Kinnamon, Keneth [with Joseph Benson, Michel Fabre, and Craig Werner]. A Richard Wright Bibliography: L Years of Criticism and Commentary, 1933-1982. Westport, CT: Greenwood Printing, 1988. The almost comprehensive bibliographic study of secondary sources, including books, scholarly articles and reviews, newspaper reviews, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, handbook, study guides, interviews, chapters in books, encyclopedia manufactures, and handbooks. Kinnamon has begun to publish annual supplements, start with materials published in the"Richard Wright Newsletter".
  

Biography

• Fabre, Michel. The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright. New York: Morrow, 1973; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
• Gayle, Addison. Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
• Walker, Margaret. Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius. New York: Amistad, 1988.
• Webb, Constance. Richard Wright: A Biography.New York: Putnam, 1968.
• Williams, John A. The Most Native of Sons: A Biography of Richard Wright. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.

Critical Studies: Books and Collections of Essays

• Bakery, Houston A., Jr., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Native Son. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972.
• Brignano, Russell C. Richard Wright: An Introduction to the Ma and His Works. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1970.
• Butler, Robert. Native Son: The Emergence of a New Blackness Hero. Boston: Twayne, 1991.
• Fabre, Michel. Richard Wright: Books and Writers. Jackson: Academy Press of Mississippi, 1990.
• Fabre, Michel. The World of Richard Wright.Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985.
• Fishburn, Katherine. Richard Wright's Hero: The Faces of a Insubordinate-Victim. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1977.
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and G. A. Appiah, eds. Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Nowadays. New York: Amistd, 1993.
• Hakutani, Yoshinobu, ed. Critical Essays on Richard Wright. Boston: 1000. Thousand. Hall, 1982.
• Joyce, Joyce Ann. Richard Wright's Fine art of Tragedy. Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 1986.
• Kinnamon, Keneth and Michel Fabre, eds. Conversations with Richard Wright. Jackson: University Printing of Mississippi, 1993.
• Kinnamon, Keneth. The Emergence of Richard Wright: A Study Literature and Guild. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1973.
• Kinnamon, Keneth, ed. New Essays on Native Son. New York: Cambridge Upward, 1990.
• Macksey, Richard and Frank E. Moorer, eds. Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
• Margolies, Edward. The Art of Richard Wright. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Upward, 1969.
• Miller, Eugene Due east. Vox of a Native Son: The Poetics of Richard Wright. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.
• Rampersad, Arnold, ed. Richard Wright: A Drove of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.

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