Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary - Softcover

William Dow And Alice Mikal Craven, Associate Editor Yoko Nakamura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501312693 ISBN 13: 9781501312694

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Synopsis

In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary analyses Wright's work in relation to contemporary racial and social issues, bringing voices of established and emergent Wright scholars into dialogue with each other. The essays in this volume show how Wright's best work asks central questions about national alienation as well as about international belonging and the trans-national gaze. Race is here assumed as a superimposed category, rather than a biological reality, in keeping with recent trends in African-American studies. Wright's fiction and almost all of his non-fiction lift beyond the mainstays of African-American culture to explore the potentialities and limits of black trans-nationalism. Wright's trans-native status, his perpetual """"outsidedness"""" mixed with the """"essential humanness"""" of his activist and literary efforts are at the core of the innovative approaches to his work included here.

About this title

About the Authors

William E. Dow is Professor of American Literature at Université Paris-Est (UPEM), France, and Professor of English at the American University of Paris, France. His previous publications include, as co-editor, Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (2011). He is an Associate Editor of Literary Journalism Studies.

Alice Mikal Craven is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of Film Studies at the American University of Paris, France. She is co-editor of Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (2011).

Yoko Nakamura is a graduate student at the University of Iowa, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501312693
• ISBN 13: 9781501312694
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296