Native Son

Author: Richard A. Wright
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780060929800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528

Book Description
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

Richard Wright's Native Son

Author: Ana Fraile
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
An Afro-Americanist, Ana M Fraile currently teaches postcolonial literatures at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her more recent publications include the book Planteamientos esteticos y politicos en la obra de Zora Neale Hurston (2003); chapters about Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, Alice Walker and Joy Kogawa in the Rodopi series Perspectives on Modern Literature, edited by Michael Meyer; and journal articles on African American women writers such as Toni Morrison. She is also the editor of bilingual (English/ Spanish) editions on the works of Jacob A. Riis, Como vive la otra mitad, Langston Hughes, Oscuridad en Espana, and Zora Neale Hurston, Mi gente Mi gente , and the co-editor of The Impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms(1982-2002): European Perspectives. She has been the recepient of numerous grants and scholarships, among which are the Fulbright research grant, and several scholarships granted by the Canadian Government in the framework of the Foreign Affairs Faculty Enrichment Program.

Richard Wright's Native Son

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0791096254
Category : African American men in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
Richard Wright is one of the greatest African-American writers of the 20th century. His masterpiece Native Son is analyzed in this volume of essays.

Richard Wright's Native Son

Author: Andrew Warnes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134286619
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Son a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of reprinted critical essays on Native Son, by James Baldwin, Hazel Rowley, Antony Dawahare, Claire Eby and James Smethurst, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section a chronology to help place the novel in its historical context suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Native Son and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Wright's text.

Native Son

Author: J. M. Hochstetler
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310252571
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Caught between two worlds at war, he could lose everything--his country, his faith, and the woman holding his heart captive.

New Essays on Native Son

Author: Keneth Kinnamon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521348225
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
A collection of essays providing original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright.

From a Native Son

Author: Ward Churchill
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896085534
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
Ward Churchill has emerged over the past decade as one of the strongest and most influential voices of native resistance in North America. From a Native Son collects his most important and unflinching essays, which explore the themes of

Richard Wright

Author: Hazel Rowley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226730387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 645

Book Description
Skillfully interweaving quotations from Wright's writings, Rowley portrays a man who transcended the times in which he lived and sought to reconcile opposing cultures in his work. In this lively, finely crafted narrative, Wright--passionate, complex, courageous, and flawed--comes vibrantly to life. Two 8-page photo inserts.

A Mount Lehman Native Son

Author: Gordon Taylor
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039174469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
This book is a biography of my father, who died in 1998. He has left many notes in anticipation of writing a book or books himself, primarily to highlight his heritage, upbringing, and the history of the area in BC in which he lived, namely Mount Lehman. Due to his death, I had to step up, try to marshal all his notes, and attempt to write his story, as I perceive it. In the process, I had to conduct my own genealogical research, as well as historical research of my relatives, to confirm Dad’s notes and to ensure my account is accurate. I also researched the various organizations in Mount Lehman which were prominent in Dad’s and my ancestor’s lives, as I believed that the book will also be important to the history of this area. There is a dearth of comprehensive writing about the history of Mount Lehman. The book is intended to tell the story of my father and our ancestors to those who had never met them, or knew Dad and don’t know all his stories. I am especially proud of our family’s heritage and ancestry, and want to encourage my children and grandchildren to be aware of their ancestry, and add to this story if they feel inclined to do so.

Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son

Author: Mary F. Ehrlander
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496204042
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America's tallest mountain. Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper. His parents separated shortly after his birth, and his mother raised Walter in the Athabascan tradition, speaking her Koyukon-Athabascan language. When Walter was seventeen years old, Episcopal archdeacon Hudson Stuck hired the skilled and charismatic youth as his riverboat pilot and winter trail guide. During the following years, as the two traveled among Interior Alaska's Episcopal missions, they developed a father-son-like bond and summited Denali together in 1913. Walter's strong Athabascan identity allowed him to remain grounded in his birth culture as his Western education expanded and he became a leader and a bridge between Alaska Native peoples and Westerners in the Alaska territory. He planned to become a medical missionary in Interior Alaska, but his life was cut short at the age of twenty-five, in the Princess Sophia disaster of 1918 near Skagway, Alaska. Harper exemplified resilience during an era when rapid socioeconomic and cultural change was wreaking havoc in Alaska Native villages. Today he stands equally as an exemplar of Athabascan manhood and healthy acculturation to Western lifeways whose life will resonate with today's readers.