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Original Title:	Black Boy
ISBN:	0060929782 (ISBN13: 9780060929787)
Edition Language:	English

Black Boy Paperback | Pages: 419 pages

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Title	:	Black Boy
Author	:	Richard Wright
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	The Restored Text Established by The Library of America
Pages	:	Pages: 419 pages
Published	:	September 1998 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published February 1945)
Categories	:	Classics. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Cultural. African American

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Gems sometimes come from unexpected places such as Richard Wright’s autobiography/novel Black Boy.

I decided to read this because I discovered a free literature course named The American Novel since 1945 from Open Yale and it was the first title discussed. If interested in the course check this link: http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291.

I have to admit that I did not know much about the author (he seems to be famous in the US) and I was not so keen about reading this book even after watching the introduction made by the course teacher. I was increasingly surprised when pages started to fly and I found myself totally immersed in Richard Wright’s childhood as a poor black boy in the South at the end of WW1.

That was a horrible time for an intelligent and curios black boy to be alive and try to accomplish his dream of telling stories. Even though slavery was abolished, black people were treated not much better than animals by the white folks. His curiosity and his love for books made him suffer endless beatings and the wrath of his family. Moreover, His honest and straight-forward manner created conflicts with the whites. He slowly learned to control his feelings and put all his strengths in finding a way to escape to the North.

I did not feel like the author was trying to make us feel pity for his childhood. The intent was more to present the facts as they were, how life was back then for a black boy. His intention is supported by the name of the book, Black boy. A generic name that can let us imagine that his experience is the experience of many of the black boys from that period. In the beginning of the review I said this is an autobiography/novel because there are many voices/proofs that contest the reality of some of the facts presented in the autobiography. It appears that some adventures were copied from other children’s experiences and some of the events happened differently than pictured here. That comes to support the idea that he wanted his autobiography to be generic.

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I hesitated between 3 and 4 stars for Black Boy. I felt that it was similar in structure to Invisible Man by Ellison but the writing, in my opinion was inferior. Like Ellison, the novel starts with Wright's childhood in the South - deserted by his father and always hungry (the original title was American Hunger - he teaches himself to read (a dangerous occupation for a black person in the South of the 20s and discovers and suffers from poverty and racism. However, the narrative was quite

Gems sometimes come from unexpected places such as Richard Wrights autobiography/novel Black Boy. I decided to read this because I discovered a free literature course named The American Novel since 1945 from Open Yale and it was the first title discussed. If interested in the course check this link: http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291.I have to admit that I did not know much about the author (he seems to be famous in the US) and I was not so keen about reading this book even after watching the

I must admit, right from the start, that this will be a very poor review. It will be a poor review because such a work of wonder and artistry could never be properly praised with mere words alone. I fear I lack the talent to even come near doing justice to the education this book has given me. To the depth of philosophy and emotion drawn forth by Wright's writing. I want to start by sharing why I chose to read this work. Many years ago I purchased a copy of Wright's work, Native Son. I don't

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books; consequently, my belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from any abiding conviction of their absolute value. If you've found your way to this corner of the Internet, the above quote should look strangely familiar. It's the most popular quote accredited to Richard Wright, and considering the context (as if that were not mandated for every critical engagement), this tells us a great

IQ "My comrades had known me, my family, my friends; they, God knows, had known my aching poverty. But they had never been able to conquer their fear of the individual way in which I acted and lived, an individuality which life had seared into my life and bones" 363Part of what makes this book so riveting is Richard's individualistic nature. It truly seem to arise out of nowhere, no one in his family nurtured that instinct in him and yet he rises above his circumstances to be extremely curious

I loved this book, and thought it was nearly perfect up until the last part when he started flirting with the Communist party in Chicago. I just felt there was a jarring disconnect, because he was being so heartfelt and honest about his personal experiences with discrimination and coming of age in a divided America, that the Communist part while fascinating, just felt like it belonged in a different book.On Communism:"I knew, as I watched, that I was looking at the future of mankind, that this

Every so often I will personally discover a story (not just "know" about it), written before my time, that opens up a world of enlightenment and gives answers to questions I didn't realize I had. Black Boy, the autobiographical memoir of author Richard Wright, is one of those novels. Originally, Black Boy was published as two separate novels (Black Boy and American Hunger). The first dealing with his childhood through late adolescents in the south. The second begins with Wright realizing his