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Tables of Contents for Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger)
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Introduction 3
WILLIAM L. ANDREWS AND DOUGLAS TAYLOR
Part I Interview
This, Too, Is America
25
8
CHARLES J. ROLO
Part II Contemporary Critical Responses
Richard Wright Looks Back: Harsh, Forbidding Memories of Negro Childhood and Youth
33
4
W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS
A Tragic Situation
37
4
LIONEL TRILLING
Portrait of a Typical Negro?
41
4
MARY MCCARTHY
Richard Wright's Blues
45
18
RALPH ELLISON
Part III Scholarly and Critical Assessments
The Metamorphosis of Richard Wright's Black Boy
63
18
JANICE THADDEUS
From Experience to Eloquence: Richard Wright's Black Bay as Art
81
20
CHARLES T. DAVIS
Literacy and Ascent: Richard Wright's Black Boy
101
12
ROBERT B. STEPTO
An Apprenticeship to Life and Art: Narrative Design in Wright's Black Boy
113
18
JOHN O. HODGES
Creation of the Self in Richard Wright's Black Boy
131
18
YOSHINOBU HAKUTANI
"Shouting Curses": The Politics of "Bad" Language in Richard Wright's Black Boy
149
22
JENNIFER H. POULOS
Richard Wright: "Wearing the Mask"
171
20
TIMOTHY ADAMS
The Horror and the Glory: Richard Wright's Portrait of the Artist in Black Bay and American Hunger
191
18
HORACE A. PORTER
Suggested Reading
209