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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Richard Wright"”.
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Incorporating the White Shadow: The Destructive Masculinities of Richard Wright
… have on the psyches of the protagonists of Richard Wright's novels and stories. It argues these male characters are so degraded and perverted by their environments that they adopt the mindsets and beliefs of the structures designed to oppress them. They prefer the strength and agency of …
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Richard Wright, <em>Native Son</em>, and the Rhetorical Framing of the Black American Experience
<p>This dissertation is an exploration into Richard Wright’s rhetorical framing of the black American experience to further understand the impact and influence of language on black Americans within the progression of society. If we revisit 20 th century black American protest literature with a …
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One Time, One Place? Richard Wright and Eudora Welty's Shared Visual Politics in the Depression Era
… comparative studies of Mississippi-born authors Richard Wright and Eudora Welty. It argues that, though the authors' writing has traditionally been understood as residing on opposite sides of the political spectrum, they share a political vision of the rural South and urban North in the …
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Richard Wright e William “Big Bill" Broonzy : diálogos narrativas da grande migração negra americana (1930-1960)
… a literatura, a arte e a música afro-americanas. Richard Wright na literatura e Big Bill Broonzy na música são disso exemplo. Nascidos no Mississippi, ambos participaram nessa migração em massa, um como o outro se estabeleceram na ilusória “Terra Prometida" de Chicago e um como o outro dali …
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Richard Wright, James Baldwinn e Barack Obama : da ficção às narrativas autobiográficas e o dilema americano
… de épocas históricas diversas, a saber, Richard Wright, anos 40 do século passado, James Baldwin, anos 60 do mesmo século e, por último, o atual presidente americano, Barack Obama, cuja autobiografia é bem contemporânea. O tema central da nossa investigação é tentar perceber que evolução …
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The Freedom to Choose: The Aesthetics of Choice in Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Cade Bambara
… stories. To what ends do the works by Hurston, Wright, Bambara, and Baraka emphasize the "choices" African Americans make in the face of social barriers? Addressing this question will help to better explain how characters, within specific short stories, make specific decisions to gain higher …
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Philosophical inheritances : Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
… F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, and Sylvia Plath. First, I establish the pervasiveness of Nietzsche's influence on American society, explore the reasons for his popularity, and provide a brief review of other studies of Nietzsche reception in American literature …
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"Existential Realism: Modernism and the Ethics of Agency in the Franco-American Existentialist Tradition, 1937-1955"
… Through readings of novels by John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Patricia Highsmith, I show how such immersive narratives invite readers to inhabit characters’ agency. These novels illuminate a dimension of character agency that has gone overlooked in the prevailing modernist accounts of …
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Archival Vagabonds: 20th-Century American Fiction and the Archive in Novelistic Practice
… with archival practices--Claude McKay, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Jack Kerouac. In juxtaposing their dual roles as public novelists and private archivists, I expose how their literary practices echo with core concepts in archival theory and position the novel as an alternative …
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That Rotten Richness': Old Maids and Reproductive Anxiety In U.S. Southern Fiction, 1923-1946
… William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, and Richard Wright, the figure of the old maid serves a variety of symbolic purposes; these writers use her to reject the myths of a glorious past and mourn for the region's losses, satirize the burden of Southern history and fall prey to its allure, …
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Murder! But How Foul? Determination, Existentialism and Rationalization in Twentieth-Century American Novels with Transgressive Protagonists
… understanding of his "criminal" responsibility. Richard Wright, from mid-century, created both determinist and existential transgressive protagonists, but his work is most obviously characterized by a third element--a half-unexplained volcanic rage. In many of the novels examined it was found …
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Performance limitations of vibratory gyroscopes.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1965. Sc.D.
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Names, Violence, and the African American Vernacular in Richard Wright's The Outsider
An analysis of the names and violence in Richard Wright's The Outsider reveals Wright's aesthetic program for the novel. Wright's recurring themes and the meanings of the name and aliases of his protagonist are indicative of African American vernacular tradition. Despite Wright's physical distance …
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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 …
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The Rhetoric of Violence
This thesis seeks to understand how we read and understand the use of depictions of violence by examining its rhetorical presentation. Although the media gives us a mixed understanding of the way that experiencing violence secondarily (that is, through all types of media) affects us, scholarship in …