For more than two decades Richard Wright was interviewed by the
American and foreign press, first as the author of "Uncle Tom's
Children" (1938), "Native Son" (1940), and "Black Boy" (1945), next
as a famous expatriate recently arrived and lionized in postwar
Paris, and finally as the seasoned writer of a dozen books. At the
end of his life the young man from Mississippi had become a
well-traveled intellectual deeply interested in the social and
political as well as literary and racial issues of the Old, the
New, and the Third World.
"Conversations with Richard Wright" collects some fifty
interviews, many of which are little known in the United States
because they appeared in non-English European periodicals and
newspapers. This collection reveals a serious, often didactic
Wright, giving voice to his inarticulate brothers and sisters as he
reveals his racially representative colonialism. Most of his
interviewers were white men, and he was always trying to make them
listen. European issues also claimed his attention as he struggled
to reconcile Marxism, Freudianism, and existentialism to the
political realities from 1945 to his death in 1960.
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