Conversations with RICHARD WRIGHT (Literary Conversations) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878056335 ISBN 13: 9780878056330

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 1993

Synopsis

For more than two decades Richard Wright was interviewed by the American and foreign press, first as the author of Uncle Tom’s Children (1938), Native Son (1940), and Black Boy (1945), next as a famous expatriate recently arrived and lionized in postwar Paris, and finally as the seasoned writer of a dozen books. At the end of his life the young man from Mississippi had become a well-traveled intellectual deeply interested in the social and political as well as literary and racial issues of the Old, the New, and the Third World.

Conversations with Richard Wright collects some fifty interviews, many of which are little known in the United States because they appeared in non-English European periodicals and newspapers. This collection reveals a serious, often didactic Wright, giving voice to his inarticulate brothers and sisters as he reveals his racially representative colonialism. Most of his interviewers were white men, and he was always trying to make the

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About the Author

Keneth Kinnamon is coeditor (with Michel Fabre) of Conversations with Richard Wright, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878056335
• ISBN 13: 9780878056330
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Kinnamon Keneth