This is a collection of critical essays on Richard Wright's "Native Son" by Edwin Berry Burgum, Donald B. Gibson, James Nagel, Paul N. Siegel, James A. Miller,

First published, 1940. Novel about a young Negro who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to free himself proves helpless

New York Times Bestseller One of the Best Books of 2021 by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and Esquire, and one of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Bo

Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. Best known as the trailblazing, bestselling author

First published (hardcover) in 1986. Joyce focuses specially on the stylistic characteristics of Wright's most successful novel to show how his language merges