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Article: Racial oppression and alienation in Richard Wright's "Down by the Riverside" and "Long Black Song."
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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Much of Wright's fiction has generally been regarded as existential rather than naturalistic. It is a well-established fact that Wright lived and wrote The Outsider, the most existential of his novels, in France, where he maintained close contact with such influential writers as Camus, Sartre, and de Beauvoir.(1) More recently, critics have demonstrated Camus's influences on Wright in his conception of Cross Damon. Upon closer examination of Wright's The Outsider and Camus's The Stranger, however, one would recognize some of the fundamental differences between them in the treatment of the metaphysical rebel.(2) Moreover, "Down by the Riverside" and "Long Black Song," the ...