Richard Wright: Early Works (LOA #55) (Hardcover)

Richard Wright

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: The Library of America, New York, 1991

0940450666 / 9780940450660

Serie: Buch 7 von 16 - Library of America

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Hardcover. Includes Native Son, now an HBO original movie by Rashid Johnson, with a screenplay by Suzan-Lori Parks and starring Ashton Sanders.Native Son exploded on the American literary scene in 1940. The story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living in the raw, noisy, crowded slums of Chicagos South Side, captured the hopes and yearnings, the pain and rage of black Americans with an unprecedented intensity and vividness. The text printed in this volume restores the changes and cutsincluding the replacement of an entire scenethat Wright was forced to make by book club editors who feared offending their readers. The unexpurgated version of Wrights electrifying novel shows his determination to write honestly about his controversial protagonist. As he wrote in the essay How Bigger Was Born, which accompanies the novel: I became convinced that if I did not write Bigger as I saw and felt him, Id be acting out of fear.This volume also contains Wrights first novel, Lawd Today!, published posthumously in 1963, and his collection of stories, Uncle Toms Children, which appeared in 1938. Lawd Today! interweaves news bulletins, songs, exuberant wordplay, and scenes of confrontation and celebration into a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the events of one dayFebruary 12in the life of a black Chicago postal worker. The text for this edition reinstates Wrights stylistic experiments, and the novel emerges as a far livelier work of the imagination.Uncle Toms Children first brought Wright to national attention when it received the Story Prize for the best work submitted to the Federal Writers Project. The characters in these tales struggle to survive the cruelty of racism in the South, as Wright asks what quality of will must a Negro possess to live and die with dignity in a country that denied his humanity. All five stories Wright included in the 1940 second edition are published in this volume, along with his sardonic autobiographical essay The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.Richard Wright was forged in injustice as a sword is forged, wrote Ernest Hemingway. With passionate honesty and courage, he confronted the terrible effects of prejudice and intolerance and created works that explore the deepest conflicts of the human heart.This Library of America edition presents for the first time Wrights works in the form in which he intended them to be read. The authoritative new texts, based on Wrights original typescripts and proofs, reveal the full range and power of his achievement as an experimental stylist and as a fiery prophet of the tragic consequences of racism in American society. The volume includes notes on significant changes in Wrights text and a detailed chronology of his life.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Richard Wright: Early Works (LOA #55) (Hardcover)
Autor
Richard Wright
Verlag
The Library of America, New York
Erscheinungsjahr
1991
Zustand
new
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0940450666
ISBN-13
9780940450660
Serie
Buch 7 von 16: Library of America

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