Pagan Spain - Softcover

Wright, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061450197 ISBN 13: 9780061450198

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2023

Synopsis

A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. The Spain he visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story, but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers is a blistering, powerful, yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil, caught in the strangling dual grip of cruel dictatorship and what Wright saw as an undercurrent of primitive faith. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological critique, Pagan Spain serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the grave human dangers of oppression and governmental corruption.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A new edition that records Wright's encounter with Franco, Iberia, and colonialism

About the Author:

Richard Wright won international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the black experience. He stands today alongside such African-American luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and two of his novels, Native Son and Black Boy, are required reading in high schools and colleges across the nation. He died in 1960.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 0061450197
• ISBN 13: 9780061450198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352