Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright

Hailed as ''the father of black literature in the twentieth century'', Richard Wright was an iconoclast, an intellectual of towering stature, whose multidisciplinary erudition rivals only that of W. E. B. Du Bois. This collection captures Wright''s immense power, which has made him a beacon for writers across decades, from the civil rights era to today. Individual essays examine Wright''s art as c...