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- Richard Wright in Context
- Richard Wright in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Richard Wright’s Works: A Chronology
- Introduction Richard Wright’s Luck
- Part I Life and Career, Times and Places
- Part II Social and Cultural Contexts
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Contexts
- Chapter 17 Chicago Sociology
- Chapter 18 1930s Proletarian Fiction
- Chapter 19 The Blues in Print
- Chapter 20 Realism and Modernism, Solipsism and Solidarity
- Chapter 21 The Literary Mainstream: Story and the Book-of-the-Month Club
- Chapter 22 Wright, Psychoanalysis, and Fredric Wertham’s Reading of Hamlet
- Chapter 23 Wright’s Black Boy in Context
- Chapter 24 Wright and Women Authors
- Chapter 25 Existentialism
- Chapter 26 Wright and Les Temps Modernes
- Chapter 27 Wright and Postcolonial Thought
- Chapter 28 Modern Poetry and Haiku
- Part IV Reputation and Critical Reception
- Index
Chapter 27 - Wright and Postcolonial Thought
from Part III - Literary and Intellectual Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2021
- Richard Wright in Context
- Richard Wright in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Richard Wright’s Works: A Chronology
- Introduction Richard Wright’s Luck
- Part I Life and Career, Times and Places
- Part II Social and Cultural Contexts
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Contexts
- Chapter 17 Chicago Sociology
- Chapter 18 1930s Proletarian Fiction
- Chapter 19 The Blues in Print
- Chapter 20 Realism and Modernism, Solipsism and Solidarity
- Chapter 21 The Literary Mainstream: Story and the Book-of-the-Month Club
- Chapter 22 Wright, Psychoanalysis, and Fredric Wertham’s Reading of Hamlet
- Chapter 23 Wright’s Black Boy in Context
- Chapter 24 Wright and Women Authors
- Chapter 25 Existentialism
- Chapter 26 Wright and Les Temps Modernes
- Chapter 27 Wright and Postcolonial Thought
- Chapter 28 Modern Poetry and Haiku
- Part IV Reputation and Critical Reception
- Index
Summary
This chapter situates Wright’s writings on the decolonizing world—especially White Man, Listen! and The Color Curtain —in the context of postcolonial thought. Beginning with his speech at the First International Conference of Negro Writers and Artists in Paris in 1956, it focuses on Wright’s relation to and divergence from the Négritude movement (Senghor, Césaire) as well as other traditions of postcolonial thought, such as the writings of Franz Fanon. It explores Wright’s efforts to develop a perspective from which to interpret the unprecedented historical force of decolonization, and it examines in particular how Wright sought to link—through the frame of modernity—his vantage point as a radical black intellectual in the United States with an emergent global postcolonial and anticolonial intellectual tradition.
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- Richard Wright in Context , pp. 283 - 292Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021