Richard Wright and Transnationalism

Download or read book Richard Wright and Transnationalism written by Mamoun Alzoubi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by beginning to look at matters of American racism and Civil Rights in transnational contexts, formed by the new nations surfacing from colonial rule. Richard Wright and Transnationalism demonstrates how Wright, beginning with his work in the 1950s, began to hypothesize the shared history of suffering that linked the experience of slavery, Jim Crow and racism in African American life with the impact of colonialism and neocolonialism on the large communities of Africa, Asia and Europe.