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Thunder on the Stage : The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright
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Title
Thunder on the Stage : The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright / Bruce Allen Dick.
ISBN
9780252055461
9780252087790
9780252045684
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"Richard Wright's dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright's long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. 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Bruce Allen Dick uncovers the theatrical influence on Wright's oeuvre--from his 1930s boxing journalism to his unpublished one-acts on returning Black GIs in WWII to his unproduced pageant honoring Vladimir Lenin.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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 10, 2024
Contents
The ethics of acting Jim Crow
From minstrelsy to Shakespeare to authentic Black theater : playwrights, writers, critics, and intertextual play
Distant thunder : Wright, the Federal Theatre, and early attempts at writing plays
Native Son on stage
Orator, performer, and stage writer pursuing social change
Boxing Jim Crow
Reconstructing identity : the influence of Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, and others
Acting Bigger Thomas
"Daddy Goodness" : Richard Wright's last lampoon.
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History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
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