This World Is not My Home
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A Tumultuous
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Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About
Addiction
African American literary history
alienation
An Existential Reading of The Messenger
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Black social and economic inequality
Black voices
Black writers
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Charles Stevenson Wright
Charlie Hughes
Clarence Major
Death and Rediscovery of Charles Wright
detached nature
Dora Jordan Hughes
Dorothy Hughes
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Erik Erickson
Florence Etta Wright Parks
Forgotten in the 1990s
GerShun Avilez
Great Depression
Handy Writers' Colony
Harry Handy
Henry Hill Wright
homosexuality
Ideological Apparatuses
Intersectionality
James Baldwin
James Dallas Parks
James Jones
Jim Crow New Franklin
John Bowlby
Langston Hughes
Life after Absolutely and the Hodenfields
Life of Charles Wright
literary and educational institutions
Literary biography
literary standards
Louis Althusser
marginalization
Martha Hill Wright
Mary Ainsworth
Mid-Century Fiction
Missouri
modern literature
New York City
Poverty
Race
racism
Raymond Williams
reactive attachment disorder
Redlining Culture
Regionalist art movement
Richard Jean So
Rosie Spence
Sedalia
Sedalia's segregated Black Hubbard High School
segregated school
Stalled in the 1980s
State Apparatus
tension
The Messenger
The Publication of The Wig
The Struggle to Become a Writer in New York City
The Wig
The Years in Tangier and the Finding of a Home
Thomas Hart Benton
Traumatic Missouri Childhood
Urban fiction
Village Voice
Vincent Tubbs
white supremacy
Writing in the 1970s and the Village Voice
Product details
- ISBN 9781625347077
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2023
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the 1960s, 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, moving between Tangier, Veracruz, Paris, and New York, penning a regular column for the Village Voice, living off the goodwill of his friends, and battling addiction and, later, mental health issues. 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.
W. Lawrence Hogue is professor emeritus of English at the University of Houston and author of multiple books, including Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives.
