This World Is Not My Home - W. Lawrence Hogue

This World Is Not My Home

A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright
Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2023
University of Massachusetts Press (Verlag)
978-1-62534-708-4 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Charles Wright’s innovative fiction stands apart, offering a different vision of outcast Black Americans in the postwar era and using satire to bring agency and humanity to working-class characters. This critical biography brings new attention to the writer’s impressive body of work, in the context of a wild, but troubled, life.
In the 1960s, Charles Wright’s (1932–2008) star was on the rise. After dropping out of high school and serving in the Korean War, the young Black writer landed in New York, where he was mentored by Norman Mailer, signed a book deal with a leading publisher, and was celebrated by the likes of Langston Hughes and James Baldwin. Over the decades to follow, Wright would lead a peripatetic and at times precarious life, moving between Tangier, Veracruz, Paris, and New York, penning a regular column for the Village Voice, living off the goodwill of his friends, and battling addiction and, later, mental health issues. As W. Lawrence Hogue shows, Wright’s innovative fiction stands apart, offering a different vision of outcast Black Americans in the postwar era and using satire to bring agency and humanity to working-class characters. This critical biography—the first devoted to Wright’s significant but largely forgotten story—brings new attention to the writer’s impressive body of work, in the context of a wild, but troubled, life.

W. Lawrence Hogue is professor emeritus of English at the University of Houston and author of multiple books, including Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie African American Intellectual History
Verlagsort Massachusetts
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-62534-708-1 / 1625347081
ISBN-13 978-1-62534-708-4 / 9781625347084
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