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Article: The Critical Response to Richard Wright.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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Robert J. Butler, ed. The Critical Response to Richard Wright. Westport: Greenwood, 1995. 199 pp. $55.00.
In 1991 the Library of America published two volumes of Richard Wright's work and prompted a Richard Wright renaissance. The early and late volumes include all of Wright's best known texts, with the important additions of the re-integrated Black Boy/American Hunger and Native Son. In the following three years Harper's, the University of Mississippi Press, and Northeastern University Press brought back into print all of Wright's work. So for the first time in recent years it is possible to buy copies of Black Power, Pagan Spain, White Man, Listen!, The Color ...