Richard Wright and the French Existentialists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5135831 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michel Fabre (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 39 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-755X • E-ISSN: 1946-3170 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/467459 |
| OpenAlex | W2322389141 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
During Richard Wright's lifetime, his interest in and association with French existentialist writers was generally interpreted by American reviewers and critics as a regrettable concession to literary fashion or as an unexpected turn towards an alien, non-black philosophy. Jay Saunders Redding went so far as to assert: The one thing French that caught him [Wright] was but this held him only long enough for him to write his one unqualifiedly bad novel.' Later, at the 1964 symposium on Wright held at the University of California at Berkeley, Redding stated that Wright's effort in the direction of had failed because existentialism is no
Art · Art history · Epistemology · Existentialism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Wright · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |