Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 183-185.

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.