Phenomenology and textual power in Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground".(Critical Essay)

From: MELUS | Date: December 22, 2001| Author: Young, Joseph A. | Copyright information

In Richard Wright's novella "The Man Who Lived Underground," Fred Daniels's descent into an underground sewer to evade the police, who had tortured him into confessing to a murder he did not commit, brings to his consciousness the wretchedness an African American endures as the "other" in a repressive cultural context. His descent also affords him a fortuitous encounter with the wonder of blackness (of silence and darkness), a matrix that forms a lyrical and tactile field, luring h...

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