portada Bigger: A Literary Life (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Trudier Harris

Editorial

Yale University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

200

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780300269321

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Relativo a los afroamericanos
Relativo a los pueblos de origen africano
Biografía: general
Estudios literarios: c. 1900-c. 2000
Estudios étnicos

Bigger: A Literary Life (en Inglés)

Trudier Harris (Autor) · Yale University Press · Tapa Dura

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A biography of Native Son's Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim and perpetrator, damaged by racism and segregation on the South Side of Chicago, seemingly raping and killing without regrets. His story has electrified readers for more than eight decades, and it continues to galvanize debates around representation, respectability, social justice, and racism in American life. In this book, distinguished scholar Trudier Harris examines the literary life of Bigger Thomas from his birth to the current day. Harris explores the debates between Black critics and Communist artists in the 1930s and 1940s over the "political novel," the censorship of Native Son by white publishers, and the work's initial reception--as well as interpretations from Black feminists and Black Power activists in the decades that followed, up to the novel's resonance with the Black Lives Matter movement today. Bigger, Harris argues, represents the knotted heart of American racism, damning and unsettling, and still very much with us.