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- The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright
- The Cambridge Companion To Richard Wright
- The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Native Son in Jim Crow America
- 1 The Literary Ecology of Native Son and Black Boy
- 2 Richard Wright’s Planned Incongruity
- 3 Marxism, Communism, and Richard Wright’s Depression-Era Work
- 4 Rhythms of Race in Richard Wright’s “Big Boy Leaves Home”
- 5 Sincere Art and Honest Science
- 6 Outside Joke
- Part II “I Choose Exile”
- Further Reading
- Index
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2 - Richard Wright’s Planned Incongruity
Black Boy as “Modern Living”
from Part I - Native Son in Jim Crow America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2019
- The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright
- The Cambridge Companion To Richard Wright
- The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Native Son in Jim Crow America
- 1 The Literary Ecology of Native Son and Black Boy
- 2 Richard Wright’s Planned Incongruity
- 3 Marxism, Communism, and Richard Wright’s Depression-Era Work
- 4 Rhythms of Race in Richard Wright’s “Big Boy Leaves Home”
- 5 Sincere Art and Honest Science
- 6 Outside Joke
- Part II “I Choose Exile”
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
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- The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright , pp. 39 - 57Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019