Blues-ized Ethical Writing: a Study of Richard Wright's Works
by Li Yi
About This Novel
This book is a monograph on African American studies and is the final result of the National Social Science Foundation Youth Project "Research on the Works of Richard Wright". The overall framework of this book consists of five chapters. The first chapter focuses on the two central themes of "Evolving Blues and Black Survival Ethics" and "Wright's Blues-Based Ethical Writing". The next four chapters treat Richard Wright's four novels "Native Son", "Black Child", "The Outsider" and "Laws of the Father" from different periods as a dynamic system of works, and study the protagonists of these novels as a continuously developing male subject group to analyze the ethical environment of black people's lives and the internal connection between the ethical relationships in which they live and the ethical choices they make. This book compares the similarities between Richard Wright's novel system and the theme of blues music, analyzes the ethical values implicit in it, and clarifies that Richard Wright's novels outline the transformation of black men's ethical identity from boy to man to father over time. In fact, it is the inheritance of the blues tradition and the writing of black survival ethics.
What Readers Think
Rating
Community(0)
Rating
Community(0)
