by Richard Wright · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099285069
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«Black Boy» is the autobiography of American writer Richard Wright, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (272 pages, in English).
The work narrates Richard Wright's childhood and youth in the American South at the beginning of the 20th century: poverty, abandonment and hunger, and an early learning of the rules of racial segregation. Between personal memory and social testimony, the author describes the need to feign and submit in order to survive in a hostile environment.
The Vintage Classics paperback edition was published in August 2000; the work originally appeared in 1945.
A read for those interested in memoirs, American social history and accounts of the 20th-century African American experience.
Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908–1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence. His best known works include the novella collection Uncle Tom's Children (1938), the novel Native Son (1940), and the memoir Black Boy (1945). Literary critics believe his work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century.
