Richard-Wright.ppt

1、Richard Wright,111 Qiu Jiayuan,Content,Brief Introduction Personal Experience Writing Style Major Works Influences,Brief Introduction,Poet, Author, Journalist Pioneering African-American writer born on September 4, 1908 in Roxie, Mississippi died in Paris, France on November 28, 1960,Personal Experi

2、ence,He lived with his maternal grandmother from early 1920 until late 1925. Here he felt stifled by his aunt and grandmother, who tried to force him to pray that he might find God. His childhood in Memphis and Mississippi shaped his lasting impressions of American racism. At the age of 16, Wright p

3、ublished his first story, The Voodoo of Hells Half-Acre, in the Southern Register, a local black newspaper.,Personal Experience,Wright moved to Chicago in 1927. After securing employment as a postal clerk, he read other writers and studied their styles during his time off. In 1932, he began attendin

4、g meetings of the John Reed Club which was dominated by the Communist Party. Wright established a relationship with a number of party members. Wright formally joined the Communist Party in late 1933 and became a revolutionary poet who wrote numerous proletarian(无产阶级的) poems .,Personal Experience,By

5、1935, Wright had completed his first novel, Cesspool, published as Lawd Today (1963), and in January 1936 his story Big Boy Leaves Home was accepted for publication. In 1937, Richard Wright moved to New York. He worked on the WPA Writers Project guidebook to the city, New York Panorama (1938), and w

6、rote the books essay on Harlem. Wright became the Harlem editor of the Daily Worker. There he gained national attention for the collection of four short stories entitled Uncle Toms Children (1938). By May 6, 1938, excellent sales had provided Wright with enough money to move to Harlem, where he bega

7、n writing the novel Native Son (1940).,Personal Experience,Wright moved to Paris in 1946, and became a permanent American expatriate.After becoming a French citizen in 1947, Wright continued to travel through Europe, Asia, and Africa. These experiences were the basis of numerous nonfiction works. Wr

8、ight had contracted amoebic dysentery on a visit to Africa in 1957, and despite various treatments, his health deteriorated over the next three years. He died in Paris on November 28, 1960, of a heart attack at the age of 52.,Style,Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially those invo

9、lving the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.,Major Works-Native Son(fiction),Native Son(1940), is the story of Bigger Thomas, a troubled black twenty-year-old who almost seems destined for jail right from the start of the book. Wright uses the story of Bigger Tho

10、mas to explore the effects that racism has on the psychology of someone who may have turned out to be a normal person under different circumstances. The fiction opens the worlds eyes to racism and the effects it has, and in this respect, Wrights ideas were far ahead of his time.,Major Works- Black B

11、oy(non-fiction),Black Boy ,1945, (American Hunger) is a memoir of Richard Wrights childhood and young adulthood. It is split into two sections, Southern Night (concerning his childhood in the south) and The Horror and the Glory (concerning his early adult years in Chicago). In this book, he shows that everyone has a hunger for life that needs to be filled, and for him, writing is his way to the human heart.,Influences,His impact, rather, has been on ideas and attitudes, and his work has been a force in the social a