When Art Refuses to Look Away: Richard Wright’s Unforgiving Mirror to Power
There is something profoundly unsettling about Richard Wright that mainstream literary criticism has never quite known how to handle. He made people uncomfortable then, and he makes people uncomfortable now. Not because his writing lacks sophistication or fails to demonstrate mastery of modernist technique, but because he refused to let modernism be what white writers […]
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