Richard Wrights Perspective On The Afro American Predicament

Download or read book Richard Wright's Perspective on the Afro-American Predicament written by Ashraf Kouta and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial oppression, the quest for freedom and the struggle for survival are the major aspects of African-American history. From the advent of the seventeenth century up to the twentieth century, African-Americans were exposed to various forms of oppression and discrimination that devastated their psyches and forced them to resort to escape mechanisms necessary for survival. Therefore, African-American writers, among whom Richard Wright (1908 - 1960) is a leading figure, have always been concerned with pinpointing the African-American predicament within the socio-political context of that history. The main objective of this book is to explore Wright's portrayal of the African-American predicament in the first half of the twentieth century and to psychoanalytically examine the impact of racial oppression on African-Americans, especially in Native Son (1940) and The Long Dream (1958).