Richard Wright
Richard Wright (1908–1960) was an American author whose novels explored racial oppression and Black experience in the United States.
His most celebrated works are *Native Son* (1940) and the autobiography *Black Boy* (1945).
Wright's unflinching portrayal of racism and violence made him one of the most influential African American writers of the twentieth century.
He expatriated to France in 1947.
- social realismUnidealized portrayal of workers' lives
- Great MigrationVast collective relocation
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
Harlem Renaissance · protest literature · black experience · Jim Crow era · racial violence · segregation laws · Jean-Paul Sartre · modernist literature · autobiographical writing · Upton Sinclair · Chicago · humanism
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- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- 1930s AuthorsSteinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, Orwell, Agatha Christie
- 20th Century AuthorsErnest Hemingway, Hemingway, William Faulkner, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Black Literatureblack literature, black authors, slave narratives, Harlem Renaissance, Toni Morrison
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Educator, reformer, ex-slave
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