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Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas , a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
- Richard Wright, Arnold Rampersad
- 1940
Through a sad, tragic yet captivating narrative, Richard Wright’s ‘Native Son’ captures the impact of generations-long racial tensions among America’s black and white communities. The book explores the themes of crime, racism, pride, and death. Introduction. Summary.
However, Wright forces us to enter into Bigger’s mind and to understand the devastating effects of the social conditions in which he was raised. Bigger was not born a violent criminal. He is a “native son”: a product of American culture and the violence and racism that suffuse it.
- Richard Wright, Arnold Rampersad
- 1940
Jul 13, 1992 · But that is what Wright did think. He believed that racism in America had succeeded in stripping black Americans of a genuine culture.
- Louis Menand
Wright’s ‘Native Son’ is recognized as one of the earliest voices that creatively cried for national introspection and was one of the key instruments that spurred actions that would later metamorphose into America’s greatest political uprising, the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Jan 10, 2023 · In ‘Native Son,’ Richard Wright tells one of the most deeply touching stories about the oppression and segregation faced by African Americans in the hands of a powerful white authority in the 1930s to 1940s American society.
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Sep 14, 2021 · In 1940, a stunning novel explored the way this process unwittingly operated at home. Entitled Native Son, the ironic title announced its central theme. An American native grew up in an environment where he was treated as a despised and dangerous alien.
