Title Richard Wright and transnationalism : new dimensions to modern American expatriate literature / Mamoun F. I. Alzoubi

Published New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 29 Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 29. Contents Introduction -- Preamble -- Richard Wright: a transnational approach -- Need and importance of the study -- Methodology/theoretical approach -- Book outline -- Richard Wright's black power: the writer as a world citizen. Wright's harbingers of transnational thought -- Black power: the promised land revisited -- Constructing community: overarching global view and philanthropic appeal in Wright's the color curtain. Wright's transnational journey from Africa to Asia -- The Bandung Conference and the third world -- The color curtain and Wright's theory of constructing transnationalism -- Reviving the Spanish dream for freedom: civilizations meeting in the ghetto of enlightenment. Wright's odyssey from America to Africa, Asia, and Europe -- Wright's discourse on Spanish culture, society, religion, and politics -- Pagan Spain and Wright's transnational, transracial, and universal worldview -- Conclusion Summary Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by beginning to look at matters of American racism and Civil Rights in transnational contexts, formed by the new nations surfacing from colonial rule. Richard Wright and Transnationalism demonstrates how Wright, beginning with his work in the 1950s, began to hypothesize the shared history of suffering that linked the experience of slavery, Jim Crow and racism in African American life with the impact of colonialism and neocolonialism on the large communities of Africa, Asia and Europe Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 fast Subject Transnationalism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General. african literature. american literature. anti-imperial. anti-racist. asian literature. Bandung Conference. Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos. black boy. black power. colonization. culture. Enlightenment. first world. Ghana. Gold Coast. ghetto. harbingers. identity. native son. oppressors. Pagan Spain. politics. postcolonial literature. postcolonial studies. power. race. racism. Spain. Spanish Literature. the color curtain. the man who was almost a man. the outsider. third world. uncle tom's children. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General Transnationalism in literature Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019716217 ISBN 9780429439407 0429439407 9780429799884 0429799888 9780429799891 0429799896 9780429799877 (mobikindle) 042979987X (mobikindle)

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