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Conversations with Richard Wright
Contributor(s): Kinnamon, Keneth (Editor), Fabre, Michel (Editor)
ISBN: 0878056335     ISBN-13: 9780878056330
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
OUR PRICE:   $29.70  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 1993
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Annotation: Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - African American
Dewey: 813.52
LCCN: 93013938
Series: Literary Conversations
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.04" W x 9.18" (0.95 lbs) 276 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Publisher Description:
For more than two decades Richard Wright was interviewed by the American and foreign press, first as the author of Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Native Son (1940), and Black Boy (1945), next as a famous expatriate recently arrived and lionized in postwar Paris, and finally as the seasoned writer of a dozen books. At the end of his life the young man from Mississippi had become a well-traveled intellectual deeply interested in the social and political as well as literary and racial issues of the Old, the New, and the Third World.

Conversations with Richard Wright collects some fifty interviews, many of which are little known in the United States because they appeared in non-English European periodicals and newspapers. This collection reveals a serious, often didactic Wright, giving voice to his inarticulate brothers and sisters as he reveals his racially representative colonialism. Most of his interviewers were white men, and he was always trying to make them listen. European issues also claimed his attention as he struggled to reconcile Marxism, Freudianism, and existentialism to the political realities from 1945 to his death in 1960.

Contributor Bio(s): Fabre, Michel: - Michel Fabre is author of Richard Wright: Books and Writers and The World of Richard Wright, coauthor (with Edward Margolies) of The Several Lives of Chester Himes, and coeditor (with Robert E. Skinner) of Conversations with Chester Himes and (with Keneth Kinnamon) of Conversations with Richard Wright, all published by University Press of Mississippi.Kinnamon, Keneth: - Keneth Kinnamon is coeditor (with Michel Fabre) of Conversations with Richard Wright, published by University Press of Mississippi.