Richard Wright's Travel Writings : New Reflections.

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Attracted to remote lands by his interest in the postcolonial struggle, Richard Wright (1908-1960) became one of the few African Americans of his time to engage in travel writing. He went to emerging nations not as a sightseer but as a student of their cultures, learning the politics and the process...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Virginia Whatley
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Subjects:
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Knowledge > Foreign countries.
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Travel.
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960
African Americans > Travel > Foreign countries > History.
Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism.
Noirs américains > Voyages > Pays étrangers > Histoire.
Écrits de voyageurs américains > Histoire et critique.
Foreign countries
Travel
Travelers' writings, American
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Essays on Black Power (1954); Richard Wright's Black Power; Gazing Through the Screen; "No Street Numbers in Accra"; Essays on The Color Curtain (1956); The Color Curtain; Richard Wright's Passage to Indonesia; Essays on Pagan Spain (1957); Richard Wright as Traveler/Ethnographer; Wright, Hemingway, and the Bullfight; The Good Women, Bad Women, Prostitutes and Slaves of Pagan Spain; Essay on French West Africa (c. 1959); "French West Africa"; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index.

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