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- W2399493896 abstract "In view of the centennial of Richard Wright’s birth in 2008, the question of the contemporary significance of his work must be posed. It has been repeatedly pointed out that Wright was a genuinely protean writer who was influenced by many -isms: naturalism, Marxism, communism, existentialism, Nietzscheanism, partly Freudianism, and cosmopolitanism. What has also been argued is that the quality of his writings differs greatly, from passages that undoubtedly belong to the best of twentieth-century American literature to parts in, for instance, The Outsider (1953) and Savage Holiday (1954) that make his readers doubt whether this author still ought to be taken seriously. From today’s perspective, one of the most fascinating aspects of Wright is how elegantly he used the aforementioned -isms for a version of black self-creation that called attention to the dangers and limitations of racial essentialism, epistemological foundationalism, and narrow nationalism. As a black writer from the American South, he moved from Mississippi to Chicago, then to New York, and finally, in 1947, to France, where he died in 1960. Wright’s homelessness, his rootlessness, his self-chosen exile, as well as his later cosmopolitanism, signified that his position was that of the insideroutsider; that is, someone who understood that a black intellectual’s relentless critique of Western civilization’s racism and chauvinism would make it almost impossible for him to experience a feeling of belonging." @default.
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- W2399493896 title "“The myth-men are going”: Richard Wright, Communism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism" @default.
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