Richard Wright

This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently published A Father ' s Law (2008).

ALICE MIKAL CRAVEN is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris, France. WILLIAM E. DOW is Professor of American Literature at Université Paris-Est, France.