Cliffs Notes Wright's Black Boy Author:Carl Senna, Richard Wright Black Boy, an autobiography of the author's boyhood, explores the theory of human behavior determined by environment. Richard Wright's novel is profoundly American by being a distinctly African-American chronicle. What makes the book unique is its tone, which is that of the blues, both lyrical and ironic, and yet purely tragic. — <... more »i>Please note that this CliffsNote does not cover Wright's American Hunger, the 1977 sequel to Black Boy. « less
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