| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 199 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
African American intellectual history |
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African American intellectual history.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter One: A Tumultuous, Traumatic Missouri Childhood -- Chapter Two: The Struggle to Become a Writer in New York City -- Chapter Three: An Existential Reading of The Messenger -- Chapter Four: The Years in Tangier and the Finding of a Home -- Chapter Five: The Publication of The Wig -- Chapter Six: Writing in the 1970s and the Village Voice -- Chapter Seven: Life after Absolutely and the Hodenfields -- Chapter Eight: Stalled in the 1980s -- Chapter Nine: Forgotten in the 1990s |
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Chapter Ten: The Death and Rediscovery of Charles Wright and His Fiction -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
"In the 1950s, Charles Wright's (1932-2008) star was on the rise. After dropping out of high school and serving in the Korean War, the young Black writer landed in New York, where he was mentored by Norman Mailer, signed a book deal with a leading publisher, and was celebrated by the likes of Langston Hughes and James Baldwin. Over the decades to follow, Wright would lead a peripatetic and at times precarious life, shifting between Tangier, Veracruz, Paris, and New York penning a regular column for the Village Voice, and spending a lifetime dodging creditors, battling addiction and mental health issues, and living off the goodwill of his friends. As W. Lawrence Hogue shows, Wright's innovative fiction stands apart, offering a different vision of outcast Black Americans in the postwar era and using satire to bring agency and humanity to working-class characters. This critical biography-the first devoted to Wright's significant but largely forgotten story-brings new attention to the writer's impressive body of work, in the context of a wild, but troubled, life"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2023) |
| Subject |
Wright, Charles, 1932-2008.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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African American authors -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
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African American authors.
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Authors, American.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022045024 |
| ISBN |
1685750087 |
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9781685750084 |
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