Episode 639: Richard Wright: Native Son (Flight-Fate, Part 3/4)
American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)
English - March 06, 2024 11:07 - 30 minutes - 31.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this third part of four exploring the powerful novel NATIVE SON by Richard Wright, we witness the capture of Bigger Thomas and the way the media presented a black defendant, ignored black victims, and jumped to racist assumptions, all the while trying to expose the Communist Party for its anti-racist work.