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Richard Wright
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Standard Name: Wright, Richard,, 1908 - 1960
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching Godgenerally well received by white critics, including a reviewer for the New York Times who declared it a well nigh perfect story. On the other hand the leading black literary... |
| Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | CMC
therefore shared her day-to-day life at various times with Davis
, W. H. Auden
, Louis MacNiece
, Gypsy Rose Lee
, Benjamin Britten
, Richard Wright
, Paul
and Jane Bowles
, Christopher Isherwood |
| Literary responses | Carson McCullers | Among original reviewers, Richard Wright
judged that McCullers had captured the bleak landscape of the American consciousness below the Mason-Dixon line in a manner more natural and authentic than that of Faulkner
. |
| Reception | Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon was TM
's breakthrough novel. Reviewers' responses addressed her as a major figure. Reynolds Price
in the New York Times Book Review welcomed the book as a wise and spacious Gates, Henry Louis, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, editors. Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Amistad. 12 |
| Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | Reviewers of GS
saw this work as embodying a new naturalism. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 68 Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 68-9 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Colloquially, with the rise of black consciousness in the US, the term Uncle Tom came to stand for slave complicity, and HBS
's work fell into both political and literary disrepute. James Baldwin
first attracted... |
Timeline
4 June 1940: The twenty-three-year-old Carson McCullers...
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4 June 1940
The twenty-three-year-old Carson McCullers
won a chorus of praise with her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, centred on a young white girl growing up in the racist American south.
1956: The Paris Congress brought together for discussion...
Writing climate item
1956
The Paris Congress brought together for discussion Black writers and artists from Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA.
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