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Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

An international reassessment of the great writer''s workContributions by Robert Butler, Ginevra Geraci, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Floyd W. Hayes III, Joseph Keith, Toru Kiuchi, John W. Lowe, Sachi Nakachi, Virginia Whatley Smith, and John ZhengCritics in this volume reassess the prescient nature of Richard Wright''s mind as well as his life and body of writings, especially those directly concerned with America and its racial dynamics. This edited collection offers new readings and understandings of the particular America that became Wright''s focus at the beginning of his career and was still prominent in his mind at the end.Virginia Whatley Smith''s edited collection examines Wright''s fixation with America at home and from abroad: his oppression by, rejection of, conflict with, revolts against, and flight from America. Other people have written on Wright''s revolutionary heroes, his difficulties with the FBI, and his works as a postcolonial provocateur; but none have focused singly on his treatment of America. Wherever Wright traveled, he always positioned himself as an African American as he compared his experiences to those at hand.However, as his domestic settlements changed to international residences, Wright''s craftsmanship changed as well. To convey his cultural message, Wright created characters, themes, and plots that would expose arbitrary and whimsical American policies, oppressive rules which would invariably ensnare Wright''s protagonists and sink them more deeply into the quagmire of racial subjugation as they grasped for a fleeting moment of freedom.Smith''s collection brings to the fore new ways of looking at Wright, particularly his post-Native Son international writings. Indeed, no critical interrogations have considered the full significance of Wright''s masterful crime fictions. In addition, the author''s haiku poetry complements the fictional pieces addressed here, reflecting Wright''s attitude toward America as he, near the end of his life, searched for nirvana--his antidote to American racism.Virginia Whatley Smith, Smyrna, Georgia, is a retired associate professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the editor of Richard Wright''s Travel Writings: New Reflections, published by University Press of Mississippi.

DKK 858.00
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Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright - M. Lynn Weiss - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright - M. Lynn Weiss - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The Stein-Wright connection and its meaning for American literature and literary historyAfter the Second World War Gertrude Stein asked a friend''s support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. "I''ve got to help him," she said. "You see, we are both members of a minority group."The brief, little-noted friendship of Stein and Wright began in 1945 with a letter. Over the next fifteen months, the two kept up a lively correspondence which culminated in Wright''s visit to Paris in May of 1946 and ended with Stein''s death a few months later.Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright began their careers as marginals within marginalized groups, and their desire to live peacefully in unorthodox marriages led them away from America and into permanent exile in France. Still, the obvious differences between them, in class, ethnic and racial origins, and in artistic expression, beg the question: What was there to talk about? This question opens a window onto each writer''s meditations on the influence of racial, ethnic, and national origins on the formation of identity in a modern and post-modern world.The intuitive and intellectual affinities between Stein and Wright are illuminated in several works of nonfiction. Stein''s Paris France and Wright''s Pagan Spain are meditations on expatriation and creativity. Their so-called "homecoming narratives," Stein''s Everybody''s Autobiography and Wright''s Black Power, examine concepts of racial and national identity in a post-modernist world. Respectively in Lectures in America and White Man, Listen! Stein and Wright outline the ways in which the poetics and politics of modernism are inextricably bound.At the close of the twentieth century the meditations of Stein and Wright on the protean quality of individual identity and its artistic, social, and political expression explore the most prescient and pressing issues of our time and beyond.M. Lynn Weiss is a professor of English and American Studies at the College of William and Mary.

DKK 312.00
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Rediscovering Frank Yerby - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Rediscovering Frank Yerby - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Massé, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays is the first book-length study of Yerby's life and work. The collection explores a myriad of topics, including his connections to the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances; readership and reception; representations of masculinity and patriotism; film adaptations; and engagement with race, identity, and religion. The contributors to this collection work to rectify the misunderstandings of Yerby's work that have relegated him to the sidelines and, ultimately, begin a reexamination of the importance of "the prince of pulpsters" in American literature. It was Robert Bone, in The Negro Novel in America, who infamously dismissed Frank Yerby (1916-1991) as "the prince of pulpsters." Like Bone, many literary critics at the time criticized Yerby's lack of focus on race and the stereotypical treatment of African American characters in his books. This negative labeling continued to stick to Yerby even as he gained critical success, first with The Foxes of Harrow, the first novel by an African American to sell more than a million copies, and later as he began to publish more political works like Speak Now and The Dahomean. However, the literary community cannot continue to ignore Frank Yerby and his impact on American literature. More than a fiction writer, Yerby should be put in conversation with such contemporaneous writers as Richard Wright, Dorothy West, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, and more.

DKK 692.00
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Rediscovering Frank Yerby - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Rediscovering Frank Yerby - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Massé, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays is the first book-length study of Yerby's life and work. The collection explores a myriad of topics, including his connections to the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances; readership and reception; representations of masculinity and patriotism; film adaptations; and engagement with race, identity, and religion. The contributors to this collection work to rectify the misunderstandings of Yerby's work that have relegated him to the sidelines and, ultimately, begin a reexamination of the importance of "the prince of pulpsters" in American literature. It was Robert Bone, in The Negro Novel in America, who infamously dismissed Frank Yerby (1916-1991) as "the prince of pulpsters." Like Bone, many literary critics at the time criticized Yerby's lack of focus on race and the stereotypical treatment of African American characters in his books. This negative labeling continued to stick to Yerby even as he gained critical success, first with The Foxes of Harrow, the first novel by an African American to sell more than a million copies, and later as he began to publish more political works like Speak Now and The Dahomean. However, the literary community cannot continue to ignore Frank Yerby and his impact on American literature. More than a fiction writer, Yerby should be put in conversation with such contemporaneous writers as Richard Wright, Dorothy West, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, and more.

DKK 312.00
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Richard Wright - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Richard Wright - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Contributions by Robert J. Butler, Ginevra Geraci, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Floyd W. Hayes III, Joseph Keith, Toru Kiuchi, John Lowe, Sachi Nakachi, Virginia Whatley Smith, and John Zheng Critics in this volume reassess the prescient nature of Richard Wright's mind as well as his life and body of writings, especially those directly concerned with America and its racial dynamics. This edited collection offers new readings and understandings of the particular America that became Wright's focus at the beginning of his career and was still prominent in his mind at the end. Virginia Whatley Smith's edited collection examines Wright's fixation with America at home and from abroad: his oppression by, rejection of, conflict with, revolts against, and flight from America. Other people have written on Wright's revolutionary heroes, his difficulties with the FBI, and his works as a postcolonial provocateur; but none have focused singly on his treatment of America. Wherever Wright traveled, he always positioned himself as an African American as he compared his experiences to those at hand. However, as his domestic settlements changed to international residences, Wright's craftsmanship changed as well. To convey his cultural message, Wright created characters, themes, and plots that would expose arbitrary and whimsical American policies, oppressive rules which would invariably ensnare Wright's protagonists and sink them more deeply into the quagmire of racial subjugation as they grasped for a fleeting moment of freedom. Smith's collection brings to the fore new ways of looking at Wright, particularly his post- Native Son international writings. Indeed, no critical interrogations have considered the full significance of Wright's masterful crime fictions. In addition, the author's haiku poetry complements the fictional pieces addressed here, reflecting Wright's attitude toward America as he, near the end of his life, searched for nirvana--his antidote to American racism.

DKK 312.00
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Shadowing Ralph Ellison - John S. Wright - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Shadowing Ralph Ellison - John S. Wright - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Shadowing Ralph Ellisonby John S. WrightA critical study of the writings and thought of the American literary genius and his blues and jazz-derived "vernacular" aesthetic.In 1952, Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) published his novel Invisible Man, which transformed the dynamics of American literature. The novel won the National Book Award, extended the themes of his early short stories, and dramatized in fictional form the cultural theories expressed in his essay collections Shadow and Act and Going to the Territory.In Shadowing Ralph Ellison, John Wright traces Ellison''s intellectual and aesthetic development and the evolution of his cultural philosophy throughout his long career. The book explores Ellison''s published fiction, his criticism and correspondence, and his passionate exchanges with-and impact on-other literary intellectuals during the Cold War 1950s and during the culture wars of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.John S. Wright is associate professor of African American and African studies and of English at the University of Minnesota.

DKK 312.00
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Urbane Revolutionary - Frank Rosengarten - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Urbane Revolutionary - Frank Rosengarten - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

In Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society, Frank Rosengarten traces the intellectual and political development of C.L.R. James (1901-1989), one of the most significant Caribbean intellectuals of the twentieth century. In his political and philosophical commentary, his histories, drama, letters, memoir, and ficion, James broke new ground dealing with the fundamental issues of his age-colonialism and post-colonialism, Soviet socialism and western neo-liberal capitalism, and the uses of race, class, and gender as tools for analysis. The author examines the in depth three facets of James's work: his interpretation and use of Marxist, Trotskyist, and Leninist concepts; his approach to Caribbean and African struggles for independence in the 1950s and 1960s; and his branching into prose fiction, drama, and literary criticism. Rosengarten analyzes James's previously underexplored relationships with women and with the women's liberation movement. The study also scrutinizes James's methods of research and writing. Rosengarten explores James's provocative and influential concepts regarding black liberation in the Caribbean, Africa, the United States, and Great Britain and James's varying responses to revolutionary movements. With its extensive use of unpublished letters, private correspondence, papers, books, and other documents, Urbane Revolutionary provides fresh insights into the work of one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals and activists. Frank Rosengarten is professor emeritus of Italian and comparative literature at the City University of New York. He is the author of The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust (1885-1900): An Ideological Critique and The Italian Anti-Fascist Press, 1919-1945.

DKK 263.00
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The Short Stories of Frank Yerby - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The Short Stories of Frank Yerby - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Frank Yerby's first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, established him as a writer and launched a forty-nine-year career in which he published thirty-three novels. He also became the first African American writer to sell more than a million copies of his work and to have a book adapted into a movie by a Hollywood studio. He garnered legions of loyal fans of his writing. Yet, few know that Yerby began his writing career with the publication of a short story in his school newspaper in 1936, the first of nine stories he would publish in the 1930s and '40s. Most stories appeared in small journals and magazines and were largely forgotten once he started writing novels. This groundbreaking collection gives readers access to an intriguingly diverse selection of Yerby's short fiction. The stories collected here, eleven of which have never previously been published, paint a picture of Yerby as an intellectual who thought deeply about several philosophical questions at the center of understanding what it means to be human. The stories also reveal him as an artist committed to exploring a range of human drives, longings, conflicts, and passions, from the quirky to the serious, and in a variety of writing styles. With an attention to historical detail, voice, and character that he became known for, these stories give us new insights into this important African American writer who dared to believe he could earn a living as a writer.

DKK 858.00
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The Short Stories of Frank Yerby - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The Short Stories of Frank Yerby - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Frank Yerby's first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, established him as a writer and launched a forty-nine-year career in which he published thirty-three novels. He also became the first African American writer to sell more than a million copies of his work and to have a book adapted into a movie by a Hollywood studio. He garnered legions of loyal fans of his writing. Yet, few know that Yerby began his writing career with the publication of a short story in his school newspaper in 1936, the first of nine stories he would publish in the 1930s and '40s. Most stories appeared in small journals and magazines and were largely forgotten once he started writing novels. This groundbreaking collection gives readers access to an intriguingly diverse selection of Yerby's short fiction. The stories collected here, eleven of which have never previously been published, paint a picture of Yerby as an intellectual who thought deeply about several philosophical questions at the center of understanding what it means to be human. The stories also reveal him as an artist committed to exploring a range of human drives, longings, conflicts, and passions, from the quirky to the serious, and in a variety of writing styles. With an attention to historical detail, voice, and character that he became known for, these stories give us new insights into this important African American writer who dared to believe he could earn a living as a writer.

DKK 312.00
1

African American Haiku - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

African American Haiku - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The first study solely dedicated to exploring the power of African American haikuContributions by Yoshinobu Hakutani, Richard A. Iadonisi, Toru Kiuchi, Sheila Smith McKoy, Sachi Nakachi, Ce Rosenow, Meta L. Schettler,Virginia Whatley Smith, and Claude WilkinsonAfrican American Haiku: Cultural Visions offers insights into African American poets'' innovations in the haiku form, shedding light on a neglected aspect of black poetry.Notable scholars present new interpretations of well-known works. Essays trace the verse of five major African American haiku poets: Richard Wright, James Emanuel, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, and Lenard D. Moore. Sachi Nakachi investigates the influence of Japanese aesthetics and Eastern philosophy on Richard Wright''s haiku showing Wright''s interest in the blues as poetry. Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes the vision and affinity of jazz and haiku throughout James Emanuel''s Jazz from the Haiku King. And Claude Wilkinson digs into Etheridge Knight''s improvisation and adherence to tradition of haiku and African American vernacular form. The collection also explores how Sanchez creates a new American hybrid form of the modern haiku in English by blending haiku with her own principles of a black aesthetic. Toru Kiuchi shows how Lenard D. Moore expresses his experiences through haiku with his African American aesthetics and connections to black southern culture.By discussing multiple writers from a variety of disciplines in a single volume, the essayists compare and contrast the work created by writers, poets, and musicians, and illuminate the variety of methods African American authors used when adapting this traditional Japanese form. The result is a volume that offers rich insight into African American aesthetics, the black arts movement, gender issues, blues and jazz, and trends in contemporary poetry.John Zheng, Greenwood, Mississippi, is professor of English at Mississippi Valley State University. He was director of NEH projects on Richard Wright and on African American Literary Heritage and editor of The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku (University Press of Mississippi).

DKK 509.00
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