Thunder on the Stage The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
24.03.2024
Verlag
University of Illinois PressSeitenzahl
296
Maße (L/B/H)
23.6/15.8/2.7 cm
Gewicht
541 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-252-08779-0
Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright's family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers the theatrical influence on Wright's oeuvre--from his 1930s boxing journalism to his unpublished one-acts on returning Black GIs in WWII to his unproduced pageant honoring Vladimir Lenin. Wright maintained rewarding associations with playwrights, writers, and actors such as Langston Hughes, Theodore Ward, Paul Robeson, and Lillian Hellman, and took particular inspiration from French literary figures like Jean-Paul Sartre. Dick's analysis also illuminates Wright's direct involvement with theater and film, including the performative aspects of his travel writings; the Orson Welles-directed Native Son on Broadway; his acting debut in Native Son's first film version; and his play "Daddy Goodness," a satire of religious charlatans like Father Divine, in the 1930s.
Bold and original, Thunder on the Stage offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of a major American writer.
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