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The Jim Crow South / Thadious Davis -- Chicago / Liesl Olson -- New York and Brooklyn / Ayesha Hardison -- Paris and Ailly / William E. Dow -- Globetrotting, 1949-1960 / John Lowe -- Black masculinity : boyhood and manhood denied in Jim Crow America / Joseph G. Ramsey -- Wright and African American women / Shana A. Russell -- He tried to be a communist : Wright and the Black literary left / Alan M. Wald -- Liberalism and the color line / John K. Young -- 'The same stuff' : Native son and press coverage of the Robert Nixon trial / Jeannine Marie DeLombard -- Moviegoer and cinematic seers / Alice Mikal Craven -- Fashion : un/dressing Wright / Paula Rabinowitz -- 'Defeat measured in the jumping cadences of triumph' : Wright's engagement with blues and jazz / Tim A. Ryan -- Wright and religion / Jamall A. Calloway -- Bandung and third world liberation / Brian Russell Roberts -- Black Paris, hard-boiled paranoia, and the cultural cold war / William J. Maxwell -- Chicago sociology / Christopher Douglas -- 1930s proletarian fiction / Anthony Dawahare -- The blues in print : Wright's 'Blueprint for negro writing' reconsidered / Jesse McCarthy -- Realism and modernism, solipsism and solidarity / Anne MacMaster and Anita DeRouen -- The literary mainstream : story and the book-of-the-month club / Laurence Cossu-Beaumont -- Wright, psychoanalysis, and Fredric Wertham's reading of Hamlet / Stephan Kuhl -- Wright's Black boy in context / Robert B. Stepto -- Wright and women authors / Noelle Morrissette -- Existentialism / Stephanie Li -- Wright and Les temps modernes / Michael Nowlin -- Wright and postcolonial thought / Joseph Keith -- Modern poetry and haiku / Anita Patterson -- Wright's many lives and the travails of literary biography / Claudine Raynaud -- Contemporary reception / Ian Afflerbach -- Native son on stage and screen / Anna Shechtman -- Wright's critical reputation, 1960-2019 / Robert J. Butler -- Richard Wright in the era of #BlackLivesMatter : two views / Barbara Foley and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. |
