Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary

<p>In African American fiction Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. <i>Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary </i>analyses Wright's work in relation to contemporary racial and social issues bringing voices of established and emergent Wright scholars into dialogue with each other. <p/>The essays in this volume show how Wright's best work asks central questions about national alienation as well as about international belonging and the trans-national gaze. Race is here assumed as a superimposed category rather than a biological reality in keeping with recent trends in African-American studies. Wright's fiction and almost all of his non-fiction lift beyond the mainstays of African-American culture to explore the potentialities and limits of black trans-nationalism. Wright's trans-native status his perpetual outsidedness mixed with the essential humanness of his activist and literary efforts are at the core of the innovative approaches to his work included here.</p>