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Richard Wright Newsletter Richard Wright Newsletter Volume 4, Number 1 Spring/Summer 1995 A Richard Wright Bibliography Supplement by Keneth Kinnamon © K.K. No portion of this text may be reproduced in any manner without permission from the author. A RICHARD WRIGHT BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1985 by Keneth Kinnamon In three ways the year 1985 was especially noteworthy in Wright studies. First, the international symposium on "Mississippi's Native Son" at the University of Mississippi brought together scholars and friends of Wright from around the world. Under Maryemma Graham's coordination this historic event was a resounding success. The New York Times gave it front-page coverage on 23 November (see item 120 below). Second, the dean of Wright scholarship, Michel Fabre, brought out a new book, The World of Richard Wright. In addition to two new and twelve previously published essays, this indispensable volume reprints Wright's early story "Supe~stition" and his published poems. As if this work were not enough, Fabre also published in 1985 an essay on Wright's poetry and the book La Rive noire, which contains a substantial chapter on Wright's response to Paris and his intellectual interests during his expatriation. Finally, 1985 was extraordinary for the quantity and quality of essays on Black Boy. Leading the list is Janice Thaddeus's well- researched, ground-breaking article, but Carla Cappetti, Yoshinobu Hakutani, John o. Hodges, and Herbert Liebowitz also contributed strong pieces . Such work constituted a fitting commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the publication of one of the greatest of American autobiographies. 1985 includes "Almos' a Man" and the last three sections of "Big Boy 1. Abbott, Dorothy. "Miss issippi Leaves Home." Writers," in her Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood 2. Adams, Timothy Dow . "I Do Believe and Youth. Vol. I. Jackson: Him Though I Know He Lies: Lying as University Press of Mississippi, pp. Genre and Metaphor in Richard 725-785. Wright's Black Boy." Prose Studies, Contains a biographical sketch of 8 (September), 172-187 . W (pp . 783-784). This collection Argues that although W often departs from autobiographical 8. Anon. Index Translationum 1}. fact, BB is convincing in its Paris: Unesco , pp . 129 , 500, 604, narrative truth . It is a 702 . collective autobiography of black Lists translations of AH into boys, in which "Wright creates a German , BB int o French and version of himself whose metaphor Italian , LT into French , Q into for survival and for sustenance French , and NS into Polish . is falsehood" (pp. 185 -186) . 9 . Anon . "Mississippi's Native Son : 3 . Adler, Jacob H. "Modern Southern An International Symposium on Drama," in The History of Southern Richard Wright . " Black American Literature. Ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr . , Literature Forum, 19 (Summer), 89 . Blyden Jackson, Rayburn S. Moore, Reprint of 1985 . 10. Lewis Simpson, and Thomas Daniel Young . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State 10 . Anon. "Mississippi's Native Son: University Press , pp. 436-442. An International Symposium on Mentions briefly the play NS (p . Richard Wright . " Ca lla loo , 8 437). ( Spring-Summer), 506 . Announcement of the University of 4 . Anon. "'Afro Scholar' to Be Mississippi conference, 21-23 Hosted by U. of Miss." Afro-American November 1985. Studies: Newsletter of the Afro­ American Studies Pro~ram. The 11. Anon. "Richard Wright Week University of Mississippi, No.4 Proclaimed . " The Oxford (Miss. ) (Fall) , p. [2] . Ea~le (20 November), p . 10 . Mentions the cover photograph of Quotes from Governor Bill W. Allain's proclama tion . 5. Anon . Arts ~ Humanities Citation 12. Anon. "The World of Richard Index 1984 . Vol . 2 . Philadelphia : Wri~ht By Michel Fabre," in Books Institute for Scientific for Fall and Winter 1985-1986. Information, pp. 9417-9418. Jackson: University Press of Lists fifty-one items s.v. WRIGHT Mississippi, p . 7. R, not all on W. Full-page publisher's notice. Includes a photograph of W. 6 . Anon. "Conferences." Afro Scholar, 4 (Fall), 2-3. 13. Ashanti, Asa Paschal . "Dust to Lists the international symposium Dust." Black American Literature on W at the Univ ersity of Forum, 19 ( Fall) , 102 . Mississippi . A photograph of W Poem mentioning W briefly. appears on the cover of this issue . 14 . Atkins , Joe. "Mississippians Are Proving That You Can Go Home Again . " 7. Anon. "Governor Declares Sept. The Clarion Led~er / Jackson (Miss . ) [sic] 21-28 'Richard Wright Week.'" Daily News (1 December), p . 31 . Afro-American Studies: Newsletter of Comments on W's departure from the Afro-American Studies Pro~ram, Mississippi and quotes from BB. The University of Mississippi , No.4 (Fall), p . [1]. 15 . Axelrod, Rise B. and Charles R. Announces both the proclamation Cooper. "Narrating," in their The and the international symposium St. Martin's Guide to Writin~ . New on W. York: St. Martin's Press , pp. 386- 2 403. 22. [Baym, Nina]. "American In a section on dialogue the Literature Between the Wars , 1914- authors quote and comment on a 1945," in The Norton Anthology of passage from BB (p. 396). American Literature . Second edition. Reprinted: 1991 Ed . Nina Baym et all Vol 2. New York: Norton, pp . 861 -875 . 16 . Baker , Houston A., Jr . Mentions briefly Wand NS (pp. "Autobiographical Acts and the Voice 866, 871). of the Southern Slav e," in The Reprinted: 1986 Slave's Narrative. Ed . Charles T. Reprinted in revised form : 1989 , Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New 1994, 1995. York: Oxford University Press, pp . 242-26l. 23. Bell, Bernard W. "Ann Petry's Partial reprint of 1980 .36 . Demythologizing of American Culture and Afro-American Character , " in 17 . "The Black Man of Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Culture: W. E. B. Du Bois and The Literary Tradition. Ed. Marjorie Souls of Black Folk," in Critical Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers . Essays on H..:.. L h Du Bois. Ed . Bloomington: Indiana University William L. Andrews. Boston: G. K. Press , pp . 105-115. Hall, pp. 129-139. Compares Petry and W on several Partial reprint of 1972.23 . points, concluding that she "moves beyond [his] naturalistic 18. "Critical Change and vision" (p. 115). Blues Continuity: An Essay on the Criticism of Larry Neal." Callaloo, 24. Bowles, Paul. Without Stopping: 8 (Winter), 70-84 . An Autobiography. New York: The Ecco Mentions Neal's essay 0n Wand Press, p. 233. W's "Blueprint for Negro Writing" Reprint of 1972. (p. 74). Reprinted: 1988 25. Bradley, Dav id. "Looking Behind Cane . " The Southern Review, 21 19. Baldwin, James. The Price of the (July), 682-694. Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948- Mentions W briefly (p. 683). 1985. New York: St. Martin's/Marek, pp . 1-11, 27-33, 41-64, 65-78, 237- 26 . Breit, Anitra D. "Cumulative 244, 269-288, 449-552, 557. Index, Volume 1-20, 1963-83 , Studies Reprints of 1948.125; 1949.79; in Short Fiction." Studies in Short 1951 . 129; 1957.136; 1961 . 107, Fiction, 22 (Winter), 1-187 . 108, 109, 110 ; 1972 . 30; 1976.29 . Lists four articles on W (p. 104) . 20. Bamikunle , Aderemi. "The Harlem Renaissance and White Critical 27. Brittin, Ruth L. "Samuel W. Tradition. " CLA Journal, 29 Allen," in Afro-American Poets Since (September), 33-51. 1955 . Ed. Trudier Harris and Mentions briefly Ellison's Thadious M. Davis. Detroit : Gale, "Richard Wright's Blues" (p. 40). pp . 8 -17 . Comments on W's help in getting 21. Baraka, Amiri. "What about Allen published and introducing Literature? W-15." The Southern him to the negritude poets (p. Rev iew, 21 (July), 801-804. 10). Poem mentioning W briefly. 3 28. Brooks, A. Russell. "The Sage in 22 (Spring), 259-293. Harlem: ~ ~ Mencken and the Black Lists "The Man Who Was Almost a Writers of the 1920's . By Charles Man" in two anthologies. Scruggs." CIA Journal, 29 (September), 100-106. 34. Butler, Robert James. "Open Mentions W briefly . Movement and Selfhood in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon." The 29. Brown, Lloyd W. "The Black Centennial Review, 29 (Fall 1984- Literary Experience in Games and Winter), 58-75 . Sports," in American Sport Culture: Contains a paragraph on the The Humanistic Dimensions. Ed. Wiley entrapment and journey motifs in Lee Umphlett. Lewisburg, Penn.: W (pp. 61- 62) . Bucknell University Press, pp. 246- 254. 35. Byerman, Keith E. Fingering the Contains two paragraphs on the Jagged Grain: Tradition and Form in game of "playing white" in NS Recent Black Fiction. Athens: The (pp. 247 - 248) . University of Georgia Press, pp. 11, 41, 157, 276, 278. 30. Bruccoli, Matthew J. Ne lson Mentions briefly W, his Algren: A Descriptive Bibliography. naturalism, his use by Alice Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Walker , and his relation to "a Press, pp. 9, 10 , 11, 13 , 116, 153, modernist sensibility." 155, 207. Mentions W's introduction to 36 . "Zora Neale Hurston . Dust Algren's Never Come Morning and Tracks on ~ Road. Ed. Robert lists Algren's essays and reviews Hemenway; Mari Evans, ed. Black concerning W. Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical &yaluation; Sylvia Wallace 31. Bryant , Jerry H. "Wright, Holton. Down Home and Uptown: The Ellison, Baldwin--Exorcising the Representation of Black Speech in Demon," in The American Classics American Fiction; Trudier Harris. Revisited: Recent Studies of Exorcising Blackness: Historical and American Literature. Ed. P. C. Kar Literary Lynching and Burning and D. Ramakrishna . Hyderabad: Rituals; Houston A. Baker, Jr. American Studies Research Center , Blues. Ideology. and Afro-American pp. 681-695. Literature." Modern Fiction Studies, Reprint of 1976.43 . 31 (Winter), 730-735 . Review commenting on Trudier 32. Burns, Dan E. "Mississippi Harris's treatment of "Big Boy Writers: Reflections of Childhood Leaves Home." Mentions also NS. and Youth. Volume I: Fiction. Ed. Dorothy Abbott." South Central 37. Caldeira, Maria Isabel . "Jean Review, 2 (Winter), 101-103.
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