Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground
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Jones, DA
Published in: American Literature
March 1, 2023
This essay considers how Richard Wright’s newly released novel, The Man Who Lived Underground (2021), offers a profound black existentialist rumination on suffering, alienation, pleasure, and aesthetic experience. Homing in on the novel’s use of figures of repetition and queries of the ontology of value, it reads how Wright makes way for modes of thought that, while scorned by normative aims and logics, produce new perspectives, habits, and, perhaps, avenues for individual fulfilment in an otherwise absurd world hostile to black life and personhood.
Duke Scholars
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American Literature
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1527-2117
ISSN
0002-9831
Publication Date
March 1, 2023
Volume
95
Issue
1
Start / End Page
123 / 134
Related Subject Headings
- Literary Studies
- 4705 Literary studies
- 2005 Literary Studies
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Jones, D. A. (2023). Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground. American Literature, 95(1), 123–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345407
Jones, D. A. “Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground.” American Literature 95, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 123–34. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345407.
Jones DA. Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground. American Literature. 2023 Mar 1;95(1):123–34.
Jones, D. A. “Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground.” American Literature, vol. 95, no. 1, Mar. 2023, pp. 123–34. Scopus, doi:10.1215/00029831-10345407.
Jones DA. Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground. American Literature. 2023 Mar 1;95(1):123–134.
Published In
American Literature
DOI
EISSN
1527-2117
ISSN
0002-9831
Publication Date
March 1, 2023
Volume
95
Issue
1
Start / End Page
123 / 134
Related Subject Headings
- Literary Studies
- 4705 Literary studies
- 2005 Literary Studies