Eight Men

richard wright paul gilroy

"Wright's unrelenting bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart," said James Baldwin, and here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape one again. Eight Men presents eight stories of black men living at violent odds with the white world around them. As they do in his classic novels, the themes here reflect Wright's views on racism and his fascination with what he called "the struggle of the individual in America."

Genres short storiesfictionafrican americanamericanclassicsafrican american literatureliteraturerace20th centuryread for school

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1961

This edition

Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Published: October 9, 1996 by Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060976811
ASIN: 0060976810
Language: English

About the author

richard wright

Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of powerful, sometimes controversial novels, short stories and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerned racial themes. His work helped redefine discussions of race relations in America in the mid-20th century.

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