Article: Fraught encounters.(evaluation of essays)(Editorial)

Article: Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays.
African American Review;  March 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Arnold Rampersad, ed. Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood ... Library of America edition of the works of Richard Wright, has added another dimension to Richard Wright scholarship with the publication of Richard ...

Article: Richard Wright and Racial Discourse.(Review)
African American Review;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Sapienza" Yoshinobu Hakutani's Richard Wright and Racial Discourse is a new swing of the pendulum in Richard Wright criticism. For several decades ... reading of the first part of the Richard Wright canon. Through comparative readings ...

Article: The vanguard of modernity: Richard Wright's The ...
Texas Studies in Literature and Language;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...(1) When Richard Wright became nationally known through the publication of Native Son in ... would continue to grow. As I argue, Wright's black outsider, Cross Damon, embodies the forces of alienation that were created by the modern ...

Article: Richard Wright's 'The Long Dream' as racial and ...
African American Review;  June 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... physical toughness in battling against racism and achieving the independence of other Wright heroes such as Bigger Thomas and Cross Damon.(1) To reassess The Long Dream would require a new approach - not to its social and cultural backgrounds, which are history ...

Article: Racial oppression and alienation in Richard ...
The Mississippi Quarterly;  March 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... 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 ...

Encyclopedia entry: Outsider, The
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;      331 words ...Outsider, The, novel by Richard Wright , published in 1953. Cross Damon, a black man who works in the Chicago post office, is caught in a subway accident but escapes without serious injury, though ...

Article: The Critical Response to Richard Wright.
African American Review;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Butler, ed. The Critical Response to Richard Wright. Westport: Greenwood, 1995. 199 pp ... Library of America published two volumes of Richard Wright's work and prompted a Richard Wright renaissance. The early and late volumes ...