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- Richard Wright in Context
- Richard Wright in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Richard Wright’s Works: A Chronology
- Introduction Richard Wright’s Luck
- Part I Life and Career, Times and Places
- Part II Social and Cultural Contexts
- Chapter 6 Black Masculinity
- Chapter 7 Wright and African American Women
- Chapter 8 He Tried to Be a Communist
- Chapter 9 Liberalism and the Color Line
- Chapter 10 “The Same Stuff”
- Chapter 11 Moviegoers and Cinematic Seers in Wright’s Fiction
- Chapter 12 Clothing
- Chapter 13 “Defeat Measured in the Jumping Cadences of Triumph”
- Chapter 14 Wright and Religion
- Chapter 15 Bandung and Third-World Liberation
- Chapter 16 Black Paris, Hard-Boiled Paranoia, and the Cultural Cold War
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Contexts
- Part IV Reputation and Critical Reception
- Index
Chapter 7 - Wright and African American Women
from Part II - Social and Cultural Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2021
- Richard Wright in Context
- Richard Wright in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Richard Wright’s Works: A Chronology
- Introduction Richard Wright’s Luck
- Part I Life and Career, Times and Places
- Part II Social and Cultural Contexts
- Chapter 6 Black Masculinity
- Chapter 7 Wright and African American Women
- Chapter 8 He Tried to Be a Communist
- Chapter 9 Liberalism and the Color Line
- Chapter 10 “The Same Stuff”
- Chapter 11 Moviegoers and Cinematic Seers in Wright’s Fiction
- Chapter 12 Clothing
- Chapter 13 “Defeat Measured in the Jumping Cadences of Triumph”
- Chapter 14 Wright and Religion
- Chapter 15 Bandung and Third-World Liberation
- Chapter 16 Black Paris, Hard-Boiled Paranoia, and the Cultural Cold War
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Contexts
- Part IV Reputation and Critical Reception
- Index
Summary
Wright’s position within the American literary canon has been contested by feminist literary critics who take issue with the treatment of gender in his work. Wright’s women characters, both real and fictional, when examined within the breadth of his published and unpublished works contests this interpretation by demonstrating an archive of black women’s experience unlike any from the era. Wright’s oeuvre is composed of a complex array of black women who are portrayed as mothers, workers, leaders, activists, and theorists. They are representations of the world as it is. This lineage of black women (and Wright’s relationship to the real and fictional women in his life) also evolves alongside the author’s political consciousness.
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- Richard Wright in Context , pp. 77 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021