01281nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_125530 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 813.52 W953 Wright, Richard Later works : Black boy ( American hunger ); The outside Richard Wright ; Edited by Arnold Rampesad New York, NY The Library of America 1991 Black Boy (American Hunger) serves as a the real life basis for the novels in the first volume of this collection. It relates Wright's experiences growing up in the south and gradually moving north, ultimately to Chicago. It's fascinating and completely believable and really points out the absurdities of racism and Jim Crow-ism, as well as the coldness of the northerners. The Outsider is a departure from much of Wright's other work. While about a black character, it is essentially a musing on the intellectual and physical power one has, and their ability to wield it undetected, as long as they fit into another's stereotypes Afro-Americans,American fiction Literacy collections 20th century Minh Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ