No Race, No Country
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1930s literary left
1956 Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations
1st International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists
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African American literature
American expatriate community in Paris
anticolonial movement
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Black Paris
Black Power
Brasserie Lipp
Cafe Tournon
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Chicago
Chicago Post Office
Communist Party USA
Congressman Martin Dies
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Federal Writers' Project
House Un-American Activities Committee
Illinois
Illinois Writers' Project
Jim Crow South
John Reed Club
League of American Writers
Mississippi
NAACP Spingarn Award
Natchez
Pagan Spain
Pan-African Movement
Popular Front
South Side of Chicago
South Side Writers Group
the Gold Coast
the protest novel
University of Chicago's Department of Sociology
University of Chicago’s Department of Sociology
Product details
- ISBN 9781469685489
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2025
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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No Race, No Country presents a major reconsideration of the breakthrough African American author Richard Wright's work and life. It challenges standard evaluations of his reputation as an autodidact, his late novels, his travel books, and his political commitments after he left the Communist Party USA. Deborah Mutnick engages a wide range of Wright's work throughout his career, providing a nuanced perspective on his complicated gender politics and his serious engagement with Marx's notions of historical materialism, alienation, and commodity fetishism. Adding to a small but growing number of studies of his ecological consciousness, it also examines both his closeness to nature, especially during his youth and late in life, and his early mapping of a racial geography of the "second nature" of the sociocultural world that overlaps with and transforms the natural world. Finally, it joins a recent surge in scholarship on Wright's later nonfiction as a progenitor of Black radical internationalism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Deborah Mutnick is professor of English at Long Island University.
