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by Richard Wright
language: english
Publisher: Random House, February of 2017 ‧
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Richard Wright''s memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.

‘A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between the wars’ Daily Telegraph

At four years old, Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts about life, about fear, hunger and hatred, while his mother''s long illness taught him about suffering. In a world of white hostility and subjugation it would be his love of books and pursuit of knowledge that would propel him to follow his dream of justice and opportunity in the north.

A chronicle of coming of age under the racial prejudices of the American south, as much the story of a writer finding his voice, Black Boy remains one of the great, impassioned memoirs of the twentieth century.

Black Boy

by Richard Wright

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ISBN: 9781446468388
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: February of 2017
Language: English
Format: eBook
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EAN: 9781446468388
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Wright

Tido por um dos autores afro-americanos mais importantes do século XX, Richard Wright (1908-1960) foi uma figura tutelar para James Baldwin e influenciou escritores como Ralph Ellison e Amiri Baraka. No seu percurso de vida – da infância no Mississípi e nos bairros pobres de Chicago à consagração como intelectual e uma das vozes mais ativas na condenação do racismo nos EUA –, a liberdade e a escrita andaram sempre de mãos dadas. Na sua obra, a representação de figuras violentas aprisionadas pelo sistema racial aliava-se ao desejo de dar voz à raiva contida dos negros, denunciando a sua desumanização. Celebrizou-se com a publicação do romance Native Son (1940), adaptado ao teatro por Orson Welles, de Twelve Million Black Voices (1941), comparado a Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, de James Agee e Walker Evans, e da autobiografia Black Boy (1945). Em 1946, em fuga de uma sociedade abertamente racista que lhe negava a liberdade de ser e de escrever, exilou-se com a família em Paris.

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