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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Native son"”.
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Richard Wright, <em>Native Son</em>, and the Rhetorical Framing of the Black American Experience
… th century. With respect to the aforementioned, Native Son, the primary artifact for this project, is the foundation for an investigation into the mitigating factors Wright identified as elements within society responsible for creating an oppressive state. To fulfill this line of inquiry, the …
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Richard Wright, James Baldwinn e Barack Obama : da ficção às narrativas autobiográficas e o dilema americano
… base no estudo das obras dos autores citados – Native Son, Notes of a Native Son e Dreams from My Father – que espelham, com minúcia, a posição de cada autor perante o período temporal da sociedade que lhe coube viver, e de que modo a questão da igualdade racial, ‘The American dilemma’, se foi …
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Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
Early in Richard Wright’s Native Son, we see Bigger and his friend Gus “playing white.” Taking on the role of “J. P. Morgan,” the two young black men give orders and act powerful, thus performing their perceived role of whiteness. This scene is more than an ironic comment on the characters’ …
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The Accidental Place: Louis Armstrong Park Out of Place on the North Side
… as Treme, where a tribute to the jazz great and native son, Louis Armstrong, was planned as an afterthought. The questions remain, was the planning and building of Louis Armstrong Park responsible for the genocide of the Treme neighborhood, is the park an appropriate use of land, and what are the …
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Redefining Blackness in the Age of Whiteness: Mimicry, Ancestry, Gender Performance, and Self-Identity in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American Literature
… illustrates how imitation is used by black and native Caribbeans, Richard Wright’s <em>Native Son </em>(1940) and Lorraine Hansberry’s <em>A Raisin in the Sun </em>(1958) contextualize and exhibit W.E.B. Du Bois’s double-consciousness theory and the struggles that black Americans experience …
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Novelists/scenarists: Four Case Studies of Writers Adapting Their Own Fiction to Film (Wright, Nabokov, Dickey, Didion)
… four adaptations examined are Richard Wright's Native Son, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, James Dickey's Deliverance, and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays. The works chosen are all serious and complex modern novels by major novelists. In each case, the writer undertook the writing of the principal …
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
… of Blake or The Huts of America, Home to Harlem, Native Son, Invisible Man, Quicksand, and Their Eyes Were Watching God are distinctly picaresque. The genre continues a tradition begun with the trickster tales of Africa (Anansi, the Spider and others), then transformed by Blacks in the American …
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Invisible men: space, race, and housing in African American literature
… between discriminatory and liberating spaces in Native Son (1940), the narrator’s underground refuge in Invisible Man (1952), and the class and Levinasian boundaries of responsibility in Linden Hills (1985)—among more—my dissertation posits the question, what does it mean for space to be raced in …
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Incorporating the White Shadow: The Destructive Masculinities of Richard Wright
… never being embraced by it. The psychological dissonance then expresses itself in violence, reification, or fetishization of women. In "Long Black Song," the main character's desire to participate and excel in a white economy results in his reification of his wife and his lynching once he realizes …
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Masculinity In Comparative Black Literatures
… beginning with Richard Wright's publication of Native Son in 1940 to Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter published 1980. Black men created a transnational dialectic concerning their masculinity which involved the creation and criticism of several types of masculinity. In Chapters 1 and 2, I discuss …
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Richard Wright e William “Big Bill" Broonzy : diálogos narrativas da grande migração negra americana (1930-1960)
… leitores negros como dos brancos com o romance Native Son e a autobiografia Black Boy. Esta dissertação aborda os percursos de vida, tão paralelos entre si, destes dois vultos da cultura americana do século XX através das suas obras onde a Grande Migração Negra está mais presente, relacionando …
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One Time, One Place? Richard Wright and Eudora Welty's Shared Visual Politics in the Depression Era
… as Wright's "Big Boy Leaves Home" (1936) and Native Son (1941) and Welty's "Moon Lake" (1949) and "Flowers for Marjorie" (1941). In chapter one, I write Welty's and Wright's documentary work more firmly into the Depression-era documentary context that included Farm Security Administration …
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The Rhetoric of Violence
… violence, I make two short analyses of Native Son and The Lovely Bones and demonstrate an in-depth analysis of Fight Club and Blood Meridian in order to give an example of the type of reading I am advocating and its potential for understanding and interpreting depictions of violence in …
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Appealing to the Middlebrow Reader: Changes Made to Richard Wright's Black Boy
This thesis focuses on Richard Wright's autobiography Black Boy (American Hunger) A Record of Childhood and Youth. The book's original format underwent a couple of major changes in order to be accepted by The Book-of-the-Month Club, which were the elimination of the entire second half dealing with …