Richard Wright

African-American writer Richard Wright (1908–1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers.
This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author’s earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.

Keneth Kinnamon is a professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of several books, numerous articles, reviews, and essays on African American literature. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Keneth Kinnamon
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 499
Bibliographic Info: index
Copyright Date: 2006
pISBN: 978-0-7864-2135-0
eISBN: 978-1-4766-0912-6
Imprint: McFarland

Preface      2

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY      3

Addenda 1934–1982      341

Index      385

“valuable…essential…recommended”—ARBA; “an indispensable resource for serious students of Richard Wright”—Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale.