Richard Wright: a brief biography
The transplantation of the blues
Bigger's vernacular voice
Social determinism: an anti-American accent?
Bigger: silenced by whiteness?
First responses: James Baldwin
First responses: Ralph Ellison and Irving Howe
The Black Atlantic and beyond
'The Shadow of the White Woman: Richard Wright and the Book-of-the-Month Club'
'From No Man's Land to Mother-Land: Emasculation and Nationalism in Richard Wright's Depression Era Urban Novels'
'Slouching Toward Beastliness: Richard Wright's Anatomy of Thomas Dixon'
'Invented by Horror: The Gothic and African-American Literary Ideology in Native Son'
4. Further reading and Web resources