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Article: Richard Wright and Racial Discourse.(Review)
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- African American Review
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- September 22, 1999
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Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1996. 334 pp. $34.95.
Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"
Yoshinobu Hakutani's Richard Wright and Racial Discourse is a new swing of the pendulum in Richard Wright criticism. For several decades, Wright's work was evaluated mainly in terms of its message and of its sociological credibility. Only since the 1980s, as Hakutani documents in his "Introduction," has there been a recognition of Wright's artistry, as well as a re-reading of his message in less pessimistic, more life-affirming terms. On the basis of this renewed background, Hakutani goes back to the texts in terms of thematic criticism, the history of ...