{"product_id":"richard-wright-in-a-post-racial-imaginary","title":"Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary (Hardcover, 296 pages) – Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary analyses Wright's work in relation to contemporary racial and social issues, bringing voices of established and emergent Wright scholars into dialogue with each other. The essays in this volume show how Wright's best work asks central questions about national alienation as well as about international belonging and the trans-national gaze. Race is here assumed as a superimposed category, rather than a biological reality, in keeping with recent trends in African-American studies. Wright's fiction and almost all of his non-fiction lift beyond the mainstays of African-American culture to explore the potentialities and limits of black trans-nationalism. Wright's trans-native status, his perpetual \"outsidedness\" mixed with the \"essential humanness\" of his activist and literary efforts are at the core of the innovative approaches to his work included here.  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   Review   \u003cp\u003e“The second of a two-volume set, this collection grew out of a conference marking the centenary of Richard Wright’s birth…James Smethurst establishes the tone of the collection with the observation that Wright drew on a wide spectrum of genres--Gothic literature, proletarian and naturalist literature--and on such movements as existentialism and Marxism in order to render more palpable the lived realities of blacks in a segregated urban environment during the 1930s…Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” ―T. L. Jackson, St. Cloud State University, CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the primary objectives of this volume is to stress the diversity of Richard Wright’s influences, and in this regard it can be considered a success, the multitude of essay topics reflecting the variety of Wright’s inspirations. … Its engagement with postmodern concerns of transnationalism, performativity and intertextuality make it an informed contribution to contemporary studies of Richard Wright and American Literature, and therefore, to make my own prediction, make it a lasting work of Wright criticism.”-Eoin O'Callaghan, University College Cork, Ireland, U.S. Studies Online\u003c\/p\u003e           About the Author   William Dow is Professor of American Literature at Université Paris-Est (UPEM), France, and Adjunct Professor of English at the American University of Paris. His previous publications include, as co-editor, Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (2011). He is an Associate Editor of Literary Journalism Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Craven is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature and Film Studies at American University of Paris, France, and Directeur de theses, Master program, in the Department of English at Institut Catholique de Paris, France. She is co-editor of Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (2011).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoko Nakamura is a graduate student at the University of Iowa, USA.                                           ","brand":"William E. Dow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46070087319786,"sku":"9781623562311","price":164.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/81sVfxp3zVL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781242640","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/richard-wright-in-a-post-racial-imaginary","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}