Black Boy

Category: Livres anglais et trangers,Literature & Fiction,World Literature

Black Boy Details

With an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming off age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America. "Superb...The Library of America has insured that most of Wright's major texts are now available as he wanted them to be tread...Most important of all is the opportunity we now have to hear a great American writer speak with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."--Alfred Kazin, New York Time Book Review "The publication of this new edition is not just an editorial innovation, it is a major event in American literary history." --Andrew Delbanco, New Republic

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J'en sors l'instant. On est tous plus ou moins imprgns de cette "tche sombre" de l'histoire des tats unis : le racisme, la sgrgation, la discrimination etc. C'est inscrit, on le sait, et certains s'en indignent avec sincrit ou pas. On le sait, on connait ? Non, on ne sait pas et on ne connait rien car derrire quelques grandes dates de la lutte des droits civiques et de l'abolition de l'esclavage, il n'y a que le ressenti clinique et les thories froides de l'histoire crites l'encre noire et recraches dans les salles de classes, s'vaporant d'ailleurs progressivement annes aprs annes. Alors non, on ne connait rien et on ne sait rien car on ne l'a pas vcu dans sa chair. Richard Wright donne la substance de cette souffrance, elle est tangible, ses pages pleurent, crient, saignent. Vous sortirez de cette grande oeuvre de la littrature amricaine, branls..

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