Book contents
- Richard Wright in Context
- Richard Wright in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Richard Wright’s Works: A Chronology
- Introduction Richard Wright’s Luck
- Part I Life and Career, Times and Places
- Part II Social and Cultural Contexts
- Chapter 6 Black Masculinity
- Chapter 7 Wright and African American Women
- Chapter 8 He Tried to Be a Communist
- Chapter 9 Liberalism and the Color Line
- Chapter 10 “The Same Stuff”
- Chapter 11 Moviegoers and Cinematic Seers in Wright’s Fiction
- Chapter 12 Clothing
- Chapter 13 “Defeat Measured in the Jumping Cadences of Triumph”
- Chapter 14 Wright and Religion
- Chapter 15 Bandung and Third-World Liberation
- Chapter 16 Black Paris, Hard-Boiled Paranoia, and the Cultural Cold War
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Contexts
- Part IV Reputation and Critical Reception
- Index
Chapter 16 - Black Paris, Hard-Boiled Paranoia, and the Cultural Cold War
from Part II - Social and Cultural Contexts
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Book contents
- Richard Wright in Context
- Richard Wright in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Richard Wright’s Works: A Chronology
- Introduction Richard Wright’s Luck
- Part I Life and Career, Times and Places
- Part II Social and Cultural Contexts
- Chapter 6 Black Masculinity
- Chapter 7 Wright and African American Women
- Chapter 8 He Tried to Be a Communist
- Chapter 9 Liberalism and the Color Line
- Chapter 10 “The Same Stuff”
- Chapter 11 Moviegoers and Cinematic Seers in Wright’s Fiction
- Chapter 12 Clothing
- Chapter 13 “Defeat Measured in the Jumping Cadences of Triumph”
- Chapter 14 Wright and Religion
- Chapter 15 Bandung and Third-World Liberation
- Chapter 16 Black Paris, Hard-Boiled Paranoia, and the Cultural Cold War
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Contexts
- Part IV Reputation and Critical Reception
- Index
Summary
This chapter contextualizes Richard Wright's final completed novel, the still-unpublished "Island of Hallucination," amid another, less romantic side of Paris noir: one where lush dreams of post-racial expatriation are challenged, where Black transnationalism is inescapably molded by state surveillance, and where a capital of the cultural Cold War is erected on the foundation of a capital of Black modernity.
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- Richard Wright in Context , pp. 171 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021