Richard Wright Resources on the Web

Multimedia

Richard Wright -- Black Boy, a film by Madison D. Lacy, Jr.

• California Newsreels - a brief and useful description of Lacy's film.
• PBS - since the film took place under the wing of public television, here's their site.
• Independent Television Services - a nice site with information about the film.

All three sites have resources such as pictures and bibliographies on Wright.

Lectures, conferences, etc.

Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture - Information concerning the Richard Wright lecture series at the University of Pennsylvania.

Miscellaneous Links - General Pages and Scholarship

"Signifyin(g) as a Rhetorical Device in Selected Writers of the Harlem Renaissance" - a Master's thesis by Rodney Lain on the work of Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Richard Wright is part of the Writing and Resistance project by Jody Kerr.

Matthew Henry has a short page on Richard Wright

One Home Page - A modest offering.

Richard Wright - part of the Mississippi Writers Web created by students. Contributions from multiple student authors.

to the bibliography of Wright criticism.

to the bibliography of Wright's work.

to the Richard Wright Homepage.