Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-163) and index.
Contents
The bad nigger / Dan McCall--Bigger's infernal assumption / Roger Rosenblatt--"What had made him and what he ment": the politics of wholeness in "How 'Bigger' was born" / Joel Roache--The beginnings of self-realization / Michael G. Cooke--The tragic hero / Joyce Anne Joyce--The dissociated sensibility of Bigger Thomas / Louis Tremaine--Alienation and creativity in Native son / Valeries Smith--The re(a)d and the black / Barbara Johnson--Composing Bigger: Wright and the making of Native Son / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.
