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- Title
ANOTHER LOOK AT LAWD TODAY: RICHARD WRIGHT'S TRICKY APPRENTICESHIP.
- Authors
Burrison, William
- Abstract
Focuses on "Lawd Today!," Richard Wright's earliest written yet last published novel. Inclusion of every offensive Negro stereotype known to American literature; Comical pattern of the text which is interwoven throughout the novel which is close to the character and behavior of the protagonist, described as a fool/trickster cycle; Critics' notice of the character Jake Jackson's petty-minded cruelty, bigotry and reactionary "bourgeois" values.
- Subjects
LAWD Today! (Book); WRIGHT, Richard, 1908-1960; AFRICAN Americans; AMERICAN literature; LITERARY characters; CHARACTER sketches
- Publication
CLA Journal, 1986, Vol 29, Issue 4, p424
- ISSN
0007-8549
- Publication type
Article