Native Son (1940) is a novel by American author Richard Wright. The novel tells the story of 20-year old Bigger Thomas, an African American living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in Chicago's South Side ghetto in the 1930s. Bigger was always getting into trouble as a youth, but upon receiving a job at the home of the Daltons, a rich, white family, he experienced a realization of his identity.
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- Native Son (1940) is a novel by American author Richard Wright. The novel tells the story of 20-year old Bigger Thomas, an African American living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in Chicago's South Side ghetto in the 1930s. Bigger was always getting into trouble as a youth, but upon receiving a job at the home of the Daltons, a rich, white family, he experienced a realization of his identity. He accidentally kills a white woman, runs from the police, rapes and kills his girlfriend and is then caught and tried. "I didn't want to kill", Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill. " Wright gets inside the head of "brute Negro" Bigger, revealing his feelings, thoughts and point of view as he commits crimes and is confronted with racism, violence and debasement. The novel's treatment of Bigger and his motivations conforms to the conventions of literary naturalism. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Wright is sympathetic to the systemic inevitability behind them. The novel is a powerful statement about racial inequality and social injustices so deep that it becomes nearly impossible to determine where societal expectations/conditioning end and free will begins. As Bigger's lawyer points out, there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American, since they are the necessary product of the society that formed them and told them since birth who exactly they were supposed to be. "No American Negro exists," Wright once wrote "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull. " Frantz Fanon discusses this feeling in his 1952 essay L'Experience Vecue du Noir, or "The Fact of Blackness". "In the end," writes Fanon, "Bigger Thomas acts. To put an end to his tension, he acts, he responds to the world's anticipation."
- Native Son ist ein 1940 veröffentlichter Roman von Richard Wright, der mit seiner Verbindung von autobiographischen Elementen und der Betonung der Zwänge sozialer Milieus in der Tradition des US-amerikanischen sozialkritischen Romans der 1920er und 1930er Jahre zu verstehen ist. Gemeinsam mit Black Boy und Uncle Tom's Children gilt er als das herausragende Opus des schwarzen Schriftstellers. Es zeigt, wie ein Mensch durch eine Gesellschaft gehetzt wird, die von Hass und Vorurteilen geprägt ist. Die erste ungekürzte Ausgabe erschien in den USA 1993.
- Un enfant du pays (Native Son) est un roman américain de Richard Wright publié en 1940.
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- Native Son (1940) is a novel by American author Richard Wright. The novel tells the story of 20-year old Bigger Thomas, an African American living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in Chicago's South Side ghetto in the 1930s. Bigger was always getting into trouble as a youth, but upon receiving a job at the home of the Daltons, a rich, white family, he experienced a realization of his identity.
- Native Son ist ein 1940 veröffentlichter Roman von Richard Wright, der mit seiner Verbindung von autobiographischen Elementen und der Betonung der Zwänge sozialer Milieus in der Tradition des US-amerikanischen sozialkritischen Romans der 1920er und 1930er Jahre zu verstehen ist. Gemeinsam mit Black Boy und Uncle Tom's Children gilt er als das herausragende Opus des schwarzen Schriftstellers.
- Un enfant du pays (Native Son) est un roman américain de Richard Wright publié en 1940.
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