Richrd Wright: a reluctant comrade

Stela Torres

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Richard Wright's works have often been disregarded by scholars as a mere form of propaganda in which the writer pleads the cause of the Communist Party. We must admit, however, that although Wright poses questions in his novels and short stories which are political by nature (for instance, how can the black man as an oppressed, divided, unauthentic being participate effectively in his struggle for liberation from a racist society?), the alternatives he envisages seem quite unorthodox when considered from the standpoint of the Party lines. 


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AARON, Daniel. Richard Wright and the Communist Party. New Letters, v. 38, n. 2, p. 170-181, Winter 1971.

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BRIGNAMO, Russell Carl. Richard Wright: An Introduction to the Man' and His Works. [S.l.]: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970.

BURGUM, Edwin Berry. The Art of Richard Wright's Short Stories. Quarterly Review of Literature, v. 1, p. 198-211, Spring 1944.

CROSSMAN, Richard. (Ed.). The God that Failed. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

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MARGOLIES, Edward. The Art of Richard Wright. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969.

WRIGHT, Richard. I tried to be a communist. Atlantic Monthly, Boston, v. 174, p. 61-70, Aug. 1944.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/0101-837X.3.1.131-146

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