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Critical Insights: Native Son

Table of Contents

About This Volume, Nicolas Tredell




Anatomies of Murder: Femicide in Native Son, Nicolas Tredell




Biography of Richard Wright, Amy Leshinsky




Critical Contexts



“He examined the map again”: Richard Wright’s Macroscopic Analysis of Chicago in Native Son, Donald Kizza-Brown


Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas Among the Natives: The Early Reception of Native Son, 1940–1941, Hue Woodson


Against Naturalism! Crude Psychology in Native Son, Stephan Kuhl


Living Better, Not Bitter: Whitehead Reconfigures the Bigger Thomas Experiment, Sid Sondergard


Critical Readings



Mrs. Thomas and Vera: Still Haunting Richard Wright’s Creative Legacy, Trudier Harris


The Women Who Shaped Native Son, Patrick Chura


From Native Son to Notes of a Native Son: The Fraught Relationship Between Richard Wright and James Baldwin, Douglas Field


Battling Over Bigger: Wright, James Baldwin, and Native Son, Peter J. Bailey


“The reality of the room fell from him”: The Phenomenologies of Black Masculinity from Native Son to “Island of Hallucination,” Hue Woodson


Comrades and Loners: Marxism and Existentialism in Native Son and The Outsider, Nicolas Tredell


Bigger Thomas and the Butterfly: Bridging the “Biographical Enigma” Between Native Son and Richard Wright’s Late Haiku, Joseph G. Ramsey


Sympathy for the Rat: Reflections on Wright’s Critical Critters: From Native Son to Wright’s Haiku, Joseph G. Ramsey


Early and Later Reviews of the 1951 Film of Richard Wright’s Native Son, Robert C. Evans


Native Son Movies—Gross Failures All, Trudier Harris


Resources



Chronology of Richard Wright’s Life


Works by Richard Wright


Bibliography


About the Editor


Contributors