by admin | Aug 3, 2017 | LITERATURE
50 Years Later “Even today is my complaint rebellious…” Fifty years ago, Richard Wright chose this line from Job, words at once plaintive and defiant, as a telling epigraph to his novel Native Son. The actual novel then begins with the prophetic...
by admin | Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Native Son 50 Years Later by Sarah E. King Southside Chicago, 10 PM. A 15-year-old Black girl returns to her home in a dilapidated housing project after working all day at a fast food restaurant. Her ten month old baby is waiting for her, because his father, a...