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Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by beginning to look at matters of American racism and Civil Rights in...
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by beginning to look at matters of American racism and Civil Rights in transnational contexts, formed by the new nations surfacing from colonial rule. Richard Wright and Transnationalism demonstrates how Wright, beginning with his work in the 1950s, began to hypothesize the shared history of suffering that linked the experience of slavery, Jim Crow and racism in African American life with the impact of colonialism and neocolonialism on the large communities of Africa, Asia and Europe.
Introduction -- Preamble -- Richard Wright: a transnational approach -- Need and importance of the study -- Methodology/theoretical approach -- Book outline -- Richard Wright's black power: the writer as a world citizen. Wright's harbingers of transnational thought -- Black power: the promised land revisited -- Constructing community: overarching global view and philanthropic appeal in Wright's the color curtain. Wright's transnational journey from Africa to Asia -- The Bandung Conference and the third world -- The color curtain and Wright's theory of constructing transnationalism -- Reviving the Spanish dream for freedom: civilizations meeting in the ghetto of enlightenment. Wright's odyssey from America to Africa, Asia, and Europe -- Wright's discourse on Spanish culture, society, religion, and politics -- Pagan Spain and Wright's transnational, transracial, and universal worldview -- Conclusion.
