The Pleasure of His Company: Two New Books Afford a Reappreciaton of Richard Wright
1994; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 24; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00064246.1994.11413157
ISSN2162-5387
Autores Tópico(s)Art, Politics, and Modernism
ResumoRichard Wright were alive today, he would point to the end of the Cold War as posing the gravest threat to the AfricanAmerican struggle for justice and equality. That is perhaps the most important lesson that Wright sends to us from the grave, as it were, through the recently published Conversations With Richard Wright (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 1993, K. Kinnamon and M. Fabre, editors). The book is aptly named. The collection of 63 pieces spans 22 years, from 1938, when the novelist, then just 30 years old, took front stage on the world literary scene, till 1960, the year of his death in France, his adopted homeland. The numerous conversations over
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