Richard Wright

Richard Wright
4.9.1908 Natchez (Mississippi) – 28.11. 1960 Paris
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Richard Nathaniel Wright 4.9.1908 Rucker Plantation, Adams County, ca. 22 Meilen von Natchez (Mississippi) – 28.11. 1960 Paris
wuchs als Afroamerikaner an häufig wechselnden Orten in den Südstaaten auf
1935-37 Ceespool, später umbenannt in Lawd Today!, erstmals posthum 1963 –

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1937-46 New York
1938 Uncle Tom's Children; vier Erzählungen. »Onkel Toms Kinder«
1940 Native Son; »Sohn dieses Landes« –

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1945 Black Boy –

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ab 1946 in Paris; er gehörte dort zum Kreis um Simone de Beauvoir und Jean Paul Sartre; Bekanntschaft mit Gertrude Stein
1977 Amercian Hunger –

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Richard Wright und andere Autoren

»Sometimes this rivalry would take the form of a "deadly fight," Wright said. He added that he spoke from experience. He mentioned the occasion when he and Chester Himes had gone to dinner with Ralph Ellison in Paris, soon after Ellison had won the National Book Award for Invisible Man. Over cocktails, Chester Himes had said to Ellison: "Well, son, you found the formula." Ellison was annoyed. Himes continued to bait him. Finally, Ellison became so mad that he flicked open a knife and threatened to kill Himes. Wright mentioned the argument he had had with Baldwin, and the fistfight between Richard Gibson and Ollie Harrington on the terrace of the Tournon.«
Hazel Rowley: Richard Wright. The Life and Times, S. 521

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American Hunger

Black Boy

Lawd Today!

Native Son

Hazel Rowley: Richard Wright. The Life and Times. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. 626 Seiten

Sekundärliteratur

Adams, Timothy Dow: Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press; 1990

Felgar, Robert: Student Companion to Richard Wright. Westport: Greenwood P, 2000

Hakutani, Yoshinobu: Critical Essays of Richard Wright. Boston, Mass.: Hall, 1982

Hakutani, Yoshinobu: Richard Wright and Racial Discourse. Columbia: University of Missouri, 1996

Jackson, Lawrence P.: "The Birth of the Critic: The Literary Friendship of Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright". American Literature 72:2, 2000.

Margolies, Edward: The Art of Richard Wright. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1969

Rowley, Hazel: Richard Wright. The Life and Times. New York: Henry Holt, 2002 –

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Thomas, H. Nigel: "Richard Wright". In: Emmanuel S. Nelson: African American Autobiographers. A Sourcebook. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2002. S. 391-406

Weiss, M. Lynn: Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright: The Poetics and Politics of Modernism. Jackson: UP of Mississippi.1998

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The Zora Neale Hurston / Richard Wright Foundation