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Een van ons
De twintigjarige Afro-Amerikaanse Bigger Thomas is afkomstig uit een achterstandswijk in Chicago. Tijdens zijn eerste etmaal als chauffeur in dienst van een gegoede witte familie vermoordt hij de dochter des huizes, en slaat hij op de vlucht. Zowel de moord en aanleiding ertoe, zijn vlucht en het verdere verloop tot aan het vonnis in de rechtszaak zijn doordrenkt van het racisme dat Biggers hele wereld en leven bepaalt. Het verhaal van Bigger houdt ons een spiegel voor. Door dit pijnlijke, messcherpe verhaal staan Bigger Thomas en zijn problemen blijvend in de gedachten van de lezer geëtst. Richard Wright weet voelbaar te maken wat racisme met een mens doet, en hoezeer het een maatschappij ontwricht. Dat maakt Een van ons tot een iconische roman.
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Native Son
[Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it into the front rank of American fiction
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Baldwin: A Love Story
WINNER OF THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZEWINNER OF THE PEN/ JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYA TIME TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025AN ATLANTIC TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEARDrawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work. Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writer's personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac, whose long-overlooked significance as Baldwin's last great love is explored in these pages for the first time. Nicholas Boggs shows how Baldwin drew on all the complex forces within these relationships-geographical, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic-and alchemized them into novels, essays, and plays that speak truth to power and had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history. Richly immersive, Baldwin: A Love Story follows the writer's creative journey between Harlem, Paris, Switzerland, the southern United States, Istanbul, Africa, the South of France, and beyond. In so doing, it magnifies our understanding of the public and private lives of one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, whose contributions only continue to grow in influence.
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The Black Box
Writing the RaceThe allure of this book, and the reason for its existence, are the narrative links he draws among these people and events, and his insistence that a survey of African American history is incomplete without a special consideration of how writing has undergirded and powered it. This is a literary history of Black America, but it is also an argument that African American history is inextricable from the history of African American literature
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Yesterday Will Make You Cry
Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. Aged nineteen he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to twenty-five years in jail, where he began to write short stories. Upon release, he took a variety of jobs while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he wrote the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.
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The Man Who Cried I Am
Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists, with a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre about how this explosive novel laid bare America’s racial fault lines.
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Een van ons
De twintigjarige Afro-Amerikaanse Bigger Thomas is afkomstig uit een achterstandswijk in Chicago. Tijdens zijn eerste etmaal als chauffeur in dienst van een gegoede witte familie vermoordt hij de dochter des huizes, en slaat hij op de vlucht. Zowel de moord en aanleiding ertoe, zijn vlucht en het verdere verloop tot aan het vonnis in de rechtszaak zijn doordrenkt van het racisme dat Biggers hele wereld en leven bepaalt. Het verhaal van Bigger toont niet alleen het tot in de haarvaten doorgedrongen racisme van zijn tijd, maar houdt ook ons nu een spiegel voor. Door dit pijnlijke, messcherpe verhaal staan Bigger Thomas en zijn problemen blijvend in de gedachten van de lezer geëtst. Richard Wright weet voelbaar te maken wat racisme met een mens doet, en hoezeer het een maatschappij ontwricht. Dat maakt Een van ons (Native Son) tot een iconische roman.
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Hazel Rowley
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hazel Joan Rowley (16 November 1951 - 1 March 2011) was a British-born Australian author and biographer. Born in London, Rowley emigrated with her parents to Adelaide at the age of eight. She studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating with Honours in French and German. Later she acquired a PhD in French. She taught literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, before moving to the United States. Rowley's first published biography, of Australian novelist Christina Stead, was critically acclaimed and won the National Book Council's "Banjo" Award for non-fiction in 1994. Her next biographical work was about the African American writer Richard Wright. Her best known book, Tête-à-tête (2005), covers the lives of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (de Beauvoir had been the subject of Rowley's PhD thesis). Her last published book is Franklin & Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage, about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (2011). Rowley suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in New York in February 2011 and died there on 1 March.
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June Wayne
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. June Claire Wayne was an American artist, and printmaker. She founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. She was raised as June Claire Kline by her divorced mother, Dorothy Alice Kline, a traveling saleswoman in the corset business. At age fifteen, June dropped out of high school, wanting to become an artist. Avoiding her parents' last names, she used her first and middle names, June Claire, for her first solo exhibition in 1935 in Chicago, followed in 1936, by a second one at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. By 1938, June Claire was on the WPA Easel Project in Chicago and had joined a cutting-edge circle of writers, actors, artists, and scientists that included Richard Wright, James T. Farrell, Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren, and Irene Rice-Pereira
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The Emergence of Heroes in Richard Wright's Native Son and Bernard Malamud's the Fixer
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Us and Them (Song)
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. "Us and Them" is the sixth (on the 1994 CD version) or seventh track from English progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. It was written by Richard Wright and Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour, with harmonies by Wright. It is 7 minutes, 51 seconds in length, making it the longest song on the album."Us and Them" is rather quiet in tone and dynamics, although the choruses are louder than the verses. It has two saxophone solos in it, one at the beginning and another towards the end of the song. Richard Wright introduces the song with harmonies on his Hammond organ, and put a piano chordal backing and short piano solo afterwards on the arrangement. The tune was originally written on the piano by Richard Wright for the movie Zabriskie Point in 1969 and was titled "The Violent Sequence". In its original demo form it was instrumental, featuring only piano and bass.
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Rasse und Ethik der Andersartigkeit in Richard Wrights Native Son
€ 80,50