Description
Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by beginning to look at matters of American racism and Civil Rights in transnational contexts, formed by the new nations surfacing from colonial rule. Richard Wright and Transnationalism demonstrates how Wright, beginning with his work in the 1950s, began to hypothesize the shared history of suffering that linked the experience of slavery, Jim Crow and racism in African American life with the impact of colonialism and neocolonialism on the large communities of Africa, Asia and Europe.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section One: Richard Wright’s Black Power: the Writer as a World Citizen
Chapter 1: Wright’s Harbingers of Transnational Thought
Chapter 2: Black Power: The Promised Land Revisited
Section Two: Constructing Community: Overarching Global View and Philanthropic Appeal in Wright’s The Color Curtain
Chapter 3: Wright’s Transnational Journey from Africa to Asia
Chapter 4: The Bandung Conference and the Third World
Chapter 5: The Color Curtain and Wright’s Theory of Constructing Transnationalism
Section Three: Reviving the Spanish Dream for Freedom: Civilizations Meeting in the Ghetto of Enlightenment
Chapter 6: Wright’s Odyssey from America to Africa, Asia, and Europe
Chapter 7: Wright’s Discourse on Spanish Culture, Society, Religion, and Politics
Chapter 8: Pagan Spain and Wright’s Transnational, Transracial, and Universal Worldview
