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"I, too, am America": Richard Wright's literary pursuit of justice
| Resumo: | The strangulation of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer contributed to providing an arena for police brutality and maybe a change in perspective regarding the intervention of the authorities in the name of law and order. Unfortunately, all the reasons that brought about the birth and the growth of civil rights movements in the 1960’s are still alive and well in western multicultural societies and most especially in the US. Left-wing politicians do consider the fight against those remnants of the past as essential for modern societies; right-wing politicians consider that a maneuver of Cultural Marxism. Despite being less remembered after his death, Richard Wright is an author who cannot remain forgotten. The Man Who Lived Underground remained for 80 years in the darkness of a drawer in order to see the light of an age, fundamentally, not very different from the one in which it was written. Its publication in 2021 sheds light upon a character who is similar to George Floyd, a protagonist taken to martyrdom by a society full of silences and inaction when confronted with segregation and injustice. With a focus on Richard Wright and his latest posthumous work The Man Who Lived Underground, this dissertation aims to understand the connection of this novel to the era in which it was written. |
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| Autores principais: | Teixeira, Bruno Rafael Pereira de Sousa |
| Assunto: | African-American Literature George Floyd Langston Hughes Richard Wright Twenty-First Century Literatura Afro-Americana Século Vinte e Um |
| Ano: | 2023 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | The strangulation of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer contributed to providing an arena for police brutality and maybe a change in perspective regarding the intervention of the authorities in the name of law and order. Unfortunately, all the reasons that brought about the birth and the growth of civil rights movements in the 1960’s are still alive and well in western multicultural societies and most especially in the US. Left-wing politicians do consider the fight against those remnants of the past as essential for modern societies; right-wing politicians consider that a maneuver of Cultural Marxism. Despite being less remembered after his death, Richard Wright is an author who cannot remain forgotten. The Man Who Lived Underground remained for 80 years in the darkness of a drawer in order to see the light of an age, fundamentally, not very different from the one in which it was written. Its publication in 2021 sheds light upon a character who is similar to George Floyd, a protagonist taken to martyrdom by a society full of silences and inaction when confronted with segregation and injustice. With a focus on Richard Wright and his latest posthumous work The Man Who Lived Underground, this dissertation aims to understand the connection of this novel to the era in which it was written. |
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