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  • Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in C ... Continue

    Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's poweerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

    

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  • My version of this book is older, but there is no ISBN number. Rather, there is SBN: 06-083055-7.

    Anyhow, I read this either in high school or college. I do not remember which, but I think high school.

    

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Richard Wright is universally acknowledged as a starting point for black literature in contemporary America. Canonical critics speak of the author as a pioneer, a man of rare courage, and a forerunner. Wright?s Native Son is analyzed in this volume, with subjects including the beginnings of self-realization, the tragic hero, and the dissociated sensibility of Bigger Thomas.

The title, Richard Wright’s Native Son, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Richard Wright’s Native Son through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Richard Wright, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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