{"product_id":"richard-wrights-travel-writings-new-reflections-paperback","title":"Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVirginia Whatley Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttracted to remote lands by his interest in the postcolonial struggle, Richard Wright became one of the few African Americans of his time to engage in travel writing. He went to emerging nations not as a sightseer but as a student of their cultures, learning the politics and the processes of social transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Wright fled from the United States in 1946 to live as an expatriate in Paris, he was exposed to intellectual thoughts and challenges that transcended his social and political education in America. Three events broadened his world view--his introduction to French existentialism, the rise of the Pan-Africanist movement to decolonize Africa, and Indonesia's declaration of independence from colonial rule in 1945. During the 1950s as he traveled to emerging nations his encounters produced four travel narratives-\u003ci\u003eBlack Power\u003c\/i\u003e (1953), \u003ci\u003eThe Color Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e (1956), \u003ci\u003ePagan Spain\u003c\/i\u003e (1956), and \u003ci\u003eWhite Man, Listen!\u003c\/i\u003e (1957). Upon his death in 1960, he left behi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom multinational perspectives, a study of Wright's innovative travel literature and its politics of postcolonialism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Whatley Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is a retired associate professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is editor of \u003ci\u003eRichard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e, published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 16, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702293393715,"sku":"9781578069316","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/6tP_4NtrOs9781578069316.webp?v=1763301436","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/richard-wrights-travel-writings-new-reflections-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}