科图分类法:	I712.074/101 版次：
中图分类法:	I712.074 版次：
著者:	Harris, Trudier.
题名:	Bigger : [ a literary life /] / ,
出版发行:	出版地： New Haven ; 出版社： Yale University Press, 出版日期： [2024]
载体形态:	xiii, 184 p. ; 23 cm.
附注:	"Published with assistance from Jonathan W. Leone, Yale '86, and from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund"--T.p. verso
内容提要:	"Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim and perpetrator, damaged by racism and segregation on the South Side of Chicago. He steals, rapes, and kills without regrets. His story has electrified readers for more than eight decades, and it continues to galvanize debates around representation, respectability, social justice, and racism in American life. In this book Trudier Harris, the distinguished scholar of English, examines the literary life of Bigger Thomas from his birth to the current day. Harris explores the debates between Black critics and Communist artists in the 1930s and 1940s over the "political novel," the censorship of Native Son by white publishers, and the work's initial reception--as well as interpretations from Black feminists and Black Power activists in the decades that followed, up to the novel's resonance with the Black Lives Matter movement today. Harris portrays Bigger as the knotted heart of American racism, damning and unsettling, and still very much with us"--
主题词:	Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)
主题词:	American fiction History and criticism.
主题词:	African American men in literature.
主题词:	Social realism in literature.
索书号:	I712.074/101