Richard Wright

Select a work of art and describe the interrelationship of its form and content. Comment upon the impact of technique upon its performance/creation. Many peers in his field, consider Richard Wright as one of the first black protest writers. In Wright's story "The Man Who Lived Underground," helped change the course of black fiction by exposing the fears, the racial prejudices of a privileged white class and by examining the psychological affects these areas …

…from the black protest writer, to the writer. His novel was a forceful criticism of the social, political and psychological issues facing black men in white America. As a result, Wright synthesized the acute and turbulent issues within black urban life and effectively summarized the hope and despair of an entire generation of African-Americans in his novel. Wright's style of writing was a paradigm in which future African-American writers would revisit time and time again.