Richard Wright’s autobiography, Black Boy, tells about the real life occurrences that characterized his life from childhood until adulthood. The book begins with Richard’s boyhood, which was spent mostly growing up in the South where Jim Crow laws still dominated the every day lives of blacks. These laws stipulated that segregation was mandatory in public ...
The Biblical allusions in William Faulkner’s “That Evening Sun” and Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Saw the Flood” symbolize the oppression and suffering their Black characters face in a racist Southern society. While these allusions serve as an ironic counterpoint in their stories, Faulkner and Wright come from different points of departure as to how ...
Richard Wright’s and William Faulkner’s work played on the cultural representations of the maternal figure and the determinism they play on the psychological, emotional, sexual and personality traits of their male protagonists. A source I’ll refer to throughout this paper is based on an essay called “Construing Faulknerian Maternity” by Philip M. Weinstein. Though the ...
There must be at least a gazillion Pink Floyd lovers out there. OK maybe I’m underestimating that number. For anyone who’s ever discovered their genius, its a sheer lifetime that involves getting to know them and imbibe them into one’s blood. So here is a list of the ten Pink Floyd songs that anyone who ...
The collection of stories by Richard Wright, Uncle Tom’s Children, was an extremely moving text for me as a reader. All of the stories worked together as if they were one continuous story, even though they were all separate from each other. When I started reading the text I was not aware that it was ...
Cultural criticism is a phrase that is hard to pin down an exact meaning to. There are different psychological, sociological, and literary definitions of the term, as well as the academic definition those two words might garner even without association to another field. Perhaps this is part of what makes the phrase “cultural criticism” hard ...
Zami A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde, and Black Boy by Richard Wright are two texts that depict what is appears to be one of societies greatest fears in life; loneliness. Zami is a biomythography that details the confusion Lorde experiences growing up in not only a racist society that was not ...
