Richard Wright's Black Boy
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780791085851 |
ISBN-13 | : 0791085856 |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: One of America's great African-American writers, Richard Wright achieved critical and popular acclaim with the publication of Native Son, a novel, and Black Boy, an autobiography. Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, Black Boy vividly depicts Wright's journey from a child growing up in the South during the time of Jim Crow segregation laws through his creative and imaginative development as a writer and intellectual. Black Boy is both a unique autobiography and a racial discourse, chronicling Wright's continual fight against prejudice and racism as well as his quest for self-liberation. Against significant odds, Wright became America's first best-selling black author, and Black Boy became an American classic. Its enduring story documents what it means to be a black man, a southerner, and a writer in the United States. Book jacket.