New Essays on Native Son

Book Overview

New Essays on Native Son provides original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright. After an introductory essay by the editor on the conception, composition, and reception of the novel, four leading Afro-Americanists examine various aspects of this classic fictional account of violent life and death in a racist society. John M. Reilly shows how carefully Wright utilises narrative techniques to subvert conventional American racial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521348226
• ISBN13: 9780521348225
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.7"