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1) Native son
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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 Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
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Introduction / Harold Bloom - Critical Extracts: James Baldwin / Irving Howe / Ralph Ellision / Houston A. Baker, Jr. / Sherley Anne Williams / Charles T. Davis / Nina Kressner Cobb / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / Charles Johnson -- How "Bigger" Was Born / Richard Wright -- Native Son and Three Kinds of Revolution / Edward Margolies -- Bessie's Blues / Edward A. Watson -- Native Son / Kenneth Kinnamon -- Richard Wright and Native Son: Not Guilty / Dorothy...
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 77
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An examination and study of the novel Native son and why it holds a singular position in American literature.
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Introduction / Kenneth Kinnamon -- Giving Bigger a Voice: The Politics of Narrative in Native Son /. John M. Reilly -- Native Sons and Foreign Daughter / Trudier Harris -- Richard Wright and the Dynamics of Place in Afro-American Literature / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Bigger's Blues: Native Son and the Articulation of Afro-American Modernism -- Notes on Contributors -- Selected Bibliography.