Richard Wright's Black boy / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185) and index.

Richard Wright's Blues / Ralph Ellison -- An American Life / Dan McCall -- Black Boy: Richard Wright's "Tragic Sense of Life" / Claudia C. Tate -- From Experience to Eloquence: Richard Wright's Black Boy as Art / Charles T. Davis -- The Horror and the Glory: Richard Wright's Portrait of the Artist in Black Boy and American Hunger / Horace A. Porter -- Creation of the Self in Richard Wright's Black Boy / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Call and Response: Intertextuality in Two Autobiographical Works by Richard Wright and Maya Angelou / Keneth Kinnamon -- Richard Wright's Black Boy and The Trauma of Autobiographical Rebirth / Donald B. Gibson -- Richard Wright's Struggle With Fathers / Elizabeth J. Ciner -- Richard Wright and the African-American Autobiography Tradition / William L. Andrews -- "They Don't Look So Good, Mistah": Realities of the South in Richard Wrights' Black Boy and Selected Short Fiction / Warren J. Carson -- Black Boy's Comedy: Indestructibility and Anonymity in Autobiographical Self-Making / Petar Ramadanovic.