Native Son Tapa blanda - 2023
de Richard Wright
Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape society.
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Richard Wright’s Native Son tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty in Chicago's South Side during the 1930s. When Bigger unintentionally murders a white woman, he is put on trial and eventually convicted, and sentenced to the electric chair. Often recognized as a protest novel, Native Son stresses systemic racial issues, prompting the reader to feel both sympathy and empathy for Bigger. In this, the novel is one of the earliest successful attempts to explain the racial divide in America in terms of the conditions imposed on African-Americans by the dominant white society.
Soon after publication, Native Son was selected by the Book of the Month Club as its first book by an African-American author. Indeed, the novel was an immediate best seller, selling 250,000 hardcover copies within three weeks of its publication. As a result of the novel’s success, Wright became the first bestselling and the wealthiest black writer of his time, establishing him as a spokesperson for African-American issues and, to many, the “father of Black American literature.” In 1941, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Wright awarded the prestigious Spingarn Medal.
Unsurprisingly, Native Son was challenged in many public schools and libraries and is listed in the American Library Association's list of the “Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–1999.” Yet most institutions in which the novel was challenged successfully fought to keep Wright's work accessible, particularly in the classroom, defending it as a guide into the reality of the complex adult and social world.
Native son is listed as 20th on the Modern Library’s list of the “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. It is also included in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923).
Primera línea
BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.
Descripción de contraportada
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.
Identificación de primeras ediciones
Harper & Brothers first published Native Son in 1940. With a dark blue cover stamped in red and white, first editions state “First Edition” on the copyright page with "A - P" below the statement. The dust jacket of the first edition is green and yellow and states the original price of $2.50.
Detalles
- Título Native Son
- Autor Richard Wright
- Series Perennial Classics
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición [ Edition: Repri
- Páginas 544
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2023-01-10
- ISBN 9780060837563 / 006083756X
- Peso 0.85 libras (0.39 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.9 x 5.3 x 1 pulgadas (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.54 cm)
- Nivel de lectura 700
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Temas
- Catalog Heading: Classics
- Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Trials (Murder), Psychological fiction
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 86045710
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Black Issues Book Review, 09/01/2005, Page 61
- Ingram Advance, 08/01/2005, Page 67
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