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Native Son

Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated, Richard Wright

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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. ---------- Also contained in: Early Works

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Subjects

  • African American men
  • African americans
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Bildungsromans
  • Blacks
  • classic literature
  • Communism
  • Crime
  • Crime fiction
  • Criminals
  • Death row inmates
  • Drama
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