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Richard Wright's Globalism
- Author(s):
- Nicholas Rinehart (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
- Subject(s):
- American literature--African American authors, Postcolonialism, Literature, African diaspora, Race, Ethnicity, Twentieth century
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Black Atlantic, American novel, African American literature, World literature, African diaspora literature, Race/ethnicity, 20th-century literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/4jjv-a286
- Abstract:
- This essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single continuous thread. Wright’s work—including his fiction, essays, journalism, poetry, letters, and unpublished pieces spanning from the beginning of his career in the mid-1930s to his deathbed writings of 1960—crystallizes his globalist imagination even as it shifts registers: from an anti-fascist political solidarity framed by Marxist internationalism to an affective kinship among formerly colonized peoples expressed through existentialist proto-postcolonialism, and finally a transcendent poetics in search of universal humanism.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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