Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-185) and index.
Contents
Richard Wright's Black boy : a twentieth-century slave narrative / Sidonie Ann Smith -- Narrative structure of Black boy / John O. Hodges -- Richard Wright sings the Blues / Ralph Ellison -- Black boy is incomplete without American hunger / Janice Thaddeus -- Black boy as art / Charles T. Davis -- Lies in Black boy / Timothy Dow Adams -- Writing as survival in Black boy / Joseph T. Skerrett -- Richard Wright : the self and the South / William L. Andrews -- Strength of individual will / Donald B. Gibson -- Black boy is a metaphor for the birth of an artist / Horace A. Porter -- Theme of education in Black boy / William A. Proefriedt -- Metaphor of the journey in Black boy / Robert J. Butler -- Image of the father in Black boy / Elizabeth Ciner -- Wright's autobiography becomes a universal story of Black experience / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Black boy is appropriate reading for young adults / Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. -- Imagination transforms Wright's racist world in Black boy / Ronald R. Primeau.
