Richard Wright
Marxism and the Petite-Bourgeoisie
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2359422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cedric Robinson (University of California System) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 353-368 |
| Publication date | 1980-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Race & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-3968 • E-ISSN: 1741-3125 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030639688002100402 |
| OpenAlex | W2093906443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
at the moment when a people begin to realize a meaning in their suffering, the civilization that engenders that suffering is doomed.1 Richard Wright The significance of Richard Wright as a black writer, as an intellectual and social activist has yet to be firmly established in the minds of most us us. Certainly he was a most powerful writer, but was his literature art or propaganda? Was his work the product of a creative, imaginative and undoctrinaire mind, or the anguished thrust of ideology? And if his writing was essentially propaganda, what were its particular purposes? to whom was it directed? and for whom? These are the sorts of questions which haunt Wright’s image. The ambiguity surrounding Wright is, in part, a consequence of his own intellectual odyssey. More precisely it is a consequence of his public honesty about the voyage. It was a journey which took him from marxism, and through existentialism, and finally to black national-ism- a journey which could be retraced biographically from his mem-bership in the American Communist Party in the early 1930s to his death
Art · Art history · Bourgeoisie · Petite bourgeoisie · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wright · Art, Politics, and Modernism · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |