Richard Wright's 'The Long Dream' as racial and sexual discourse.

African American Review | June 22, 1996| | Copyright

When The Long Dream, Wright's last novel, written in exile in France, appeared in 1958, two years before his death, it encountered largely negative reviews in America. Despite Wright's efforts to portray black people's bitter experiences in the deep South, as he had done so successfully in Uncle Tom's Children and Black Boy, The Long Dream, some readers felt, betrayed a distinct decline in his creative power. Saunders Redding, who had earlier detected a danger inherent in Wright's exile, observed that in The Long Dream Wright had "cut the emotional umbilical cord through which his ...

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