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Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas , a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
- Richard Wright, Arnold Rampersad
- 1940
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Feb 29, 2024 · Richard Wright’s lonely efforts to bring Native Son to movie audiences is just one example of how Black writers and filmmakers struggled to create authentic adaptations that reflected Black experiences during the first half of the twentieth century.
- Charlene Regester
Aug 18, 2008 · Native Son tells the story of Bigger Thomas, an uneducated black man from Chicago who unintentionally kills a young white woman. Bigger is a study in contrasts: Strong, ignorant and angry,...
The project, which provided housing for over fifteen thousand black families, was finished in 1940, the year that Native Son was published. Lauded at first by the black community, such projects were later seen as fostering segregation and helping to create a black ghetto.
Jan 10, 2023 · In ‘Native Son,’ Richard Wright tells one of the most deeply touching stories about the oppression and segregation faced by African Americans in the hands of a powerful white authority in the 1930s to 1940s American society.
- Perennial Classics Edition
- Paperback
Aug 5, 2019 · “Native Son,” the 1939 Richard Wright novel, is a murder story without a mystery. In the first minutes of this stage adaptation by Nambi E. Kelley, we watch Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old...
Apr 5, 2019 · Director Rashid Johnson and screenwriter Suzan-Lori Parks have added to and excised out enough of Richard Wright’s controversial 1940 novel to make their version of “Native Son” distinctly theirs. Yet, does this version of a tragic story, whose source material has not aged gracefully, have something new to tell audiences in the era of ...
