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
- Chapter 1 Richard Wright’s Triangulated South
- Chapter 2 Richard Wright’s Chicago
- Chapter 3 New York and Brooklyn
- Chapter 4 Paris and Ailly
- Chapter 5 Globetrotting, 1949–1960
- Part II Social and Cultural Contexts
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Contexts
- Part IV Reputation and Critical Reception
- Index
Chapter 1 - Richard Wright’s Triangulated South
Formation as Prelude and Preface
from Part I - Life and Career, Times and Places
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2021
- 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
- Chapter 1 Richard Wright’s Triangulated South
- Chapter 2 Richard Wright’s Chicago
- Chapter 3 New York and Brooklyn
- Chapter 4 Paris and Ailly
- Chapter 5 Globetrotting, 1949–1960
- Part II Social and Cultural Contexts
- Part III Literary and Intellectual Contexts
- Part IV Reputation and Critical Reception
- Index
Summary
Although Richard Wright is primarily associated with Mississippi, he is the product of a larger southern region. His formative years in Tennessee and Arkansas, along with those in his native Mississippi, contributed to shaping his young life, especially his attitude toward family and place. His triangulated South subsequently impacted his writing, including the fiction set in Chicago. Wright’s childhood and young adult spatial geographies and locational nexuses intersected in influential ways with his individual familial and specific environmental realities to inform his developing subjectivity and emergent identity as well as his characteristic responses to belonging and emotional relationships.
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- Richard Wright in Context , pp. 11 - 21Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021