Black Boy

出版者:HarperCollins

作者:Richard T. Wright

页数:419

出版时间:2005-12-01

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780060834005

图书标签:美国文学小说post-1945理查德·赖特外国文学英文原版美国自传回忆录

When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that "if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy." Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book "was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American." From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for "obscenity" and "instigating hatred between the races." </p>

This new edition of the once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as "black boy." Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was "a drunkard," hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo." </p>

Wright's eloquent account is at once a profound indictment and an unashamed confession -- a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. </p>

HarperCollins is proud to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the book's publication with this special hardcover edition, which utilizes the restored text established by The Library of America and features a new foreword by Edward P. Jones, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World. </p>

用户评价

After this holiday, I'll buy a copy of this, and read it again.

在读先给4星吧

犀利又冰冷的语调讲述着种族歧视对男孩的一步步摧残。作者真是个语言天才！

The second part of the book, "The Horror and Glory", regretfully abridged when first published in 1945, is what got into me.

Sounthern Night读起来还格外生动。The horor and the gloryz中的黑青年共产党党员历史让黄中年我读起来分外无趣，但也明白了作者在写黑童年的时候动不动就能够打断排比抒情8成是收到写党章的影响。