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RICHARD WRIGHT

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Table of Contents (excerpt)

Sheila Smith McKoy

Note from the Editor (excerpt)

John Charles

Note from the Editor (excerpt)

ESSAYS

Rebecka Rutledge Fisher

Symbolic Wrights: The Poetics of Being Underground (excerpt)

Barbara Foley

 “A Dramatic Picture . . . of Women from Feudalism to Fascism:” Richard Wright’s “Black Hope” (excerpt)

Rachel Watson

The Living Clue: Richard Wright’s The Outsider (1953) (excerpt)

Mikko Tuhkanen

Mankind’s Queerest Laboratory: Richard Wright and the Speed of Decolonization (excerpt)

Alice Mikal Craven

Richard Wright’s “Island” of Silence in The Long Dream (excerpt)

Houston A. Baker Jr.

Race, Displacement and Richard Wright’s Transatlantic Real Estate (excerpt)

POETRY

Edward Bruce Bynum

Standing Before the Sea After Jogging (excerpt)

Grace Ocasio

Lost Boys of Sudan (excerpt)

FICTION

Gariot Pierre Louima

Homecoming (excerpt)

N. Asale Chioneso

The Men Who Mothered Eve (excerpt)

REVIEWS

Reginald D. Patterson

Soaring on Regenerated Wings in Myriam Chancy’s The Loneliness of Angels (excerpt)

John Wall

Daniel J. Sharfstein, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White (excerpt)

Ulla Rahbek

Voice and Noise – a Review of Andrea Levy’s The Long Song (excerpt)

Sheila Smith McKoy

Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear From Me (excerpt)

Patrick Alexander

Traumatic Possessions: The Body and Memory in African American Women’s Writing and Performance (excerpt)

INTERVIEW

Sheila Smith McKoy

Interview with Myriam Chancy (excerpt)

CONTRIBUTORS (excerpt)

Featured Artist (click on the artist's name to view more of his work)

J. Stacy Utley