These articles have been culled from the general critical bibliography also available at this site.

INDEX [A] | [B] | [C] | [D] | [E] | [F] | [G] | [H] | [I] | [J] | [K] | [L] | [M] | [N] | [O] | [P] | [Q] | [R] | [S] | [T] | [U] | [V] | [W] | [X] | [Y] | [Z]

Adams, Timothy Dow. Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography.
	Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 1990.
Andrews, William L. "In Search of a Common Identity: The Self and the South
	in Four Mississippi Autobiographies." The Southern Review 24
	(Winter 1988): 47-64.

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Bass, Margaret Kent. "'Whirling Out of the Dance...': Three 
	Autobiographies Written in Exile." Griot 13 (Fall 
	1994): 42-46.
Brewer, Betty. "Are We Ready for the Truth about Southern Racism from the
	Eyes of Richard Wright's Black Boy?" Mount Olive Review
	1 (Spring 1987): 61-69.
Butler, Robert J. "The Quest for Pure Motion in Richard Wright's
	Black Boy." MELUS 10 (Fall 1983): 5-17.

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Campbell, James. "The Wright Version?" Times Literary Supplement
	(Dec 13, 1991): 14.

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Estes-Hicks, Onita. "The Quest for a Place in two Mississippi 
	Autobiographies, Black Boy and coming of Age in 
	Mississippi." CLA Journal 34 (Sept. 1990): 59-68.

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Gaskill, Gayle. "The Effect of Black/White Images in Richard 
	Wright's Black Boy." Negro American Literature 7 
	(1973): 46-48.
Gibson, Donald B. "Richard Wright's Black Boy and the Trauma of 
	Autobiographical Rebirth." Callaloo 9 (Summer 1986): 
	492-98.
Goldman, Robert M., and William D. Crano. "Black Boy and 
	Manchild in the Promised Land: A Content in the Study 
	of Value Changes Over Time." Journal of Black Studies 
	7 (1976): 169-80.

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Hakutani, Yoshinobu. "Creation of the Self in Richard Wright's Black
	Boy." Black American Literature Forum 19 (Summer 1985): 70-75.
---. "Racial Discourse and Self-Creation: Richard Wright's Black Boy."
	Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays, edited 
	by John Maitino and David Peck. Albuquerque: University of New
	Mexico, 1996: 119-32.
Hodges, John O. "An Apprenticeship to Life and Art: Narrative Technique 
	in Wright's Black Boy." CLA Journal 28 (June 1985): 
	415-33.
Howe, Irving. "Black Boys and Native Sons." A World More 
	Attractive. New York: Horizon, 1963.
Howland, Jacob. "Black Boy: A Story of Soul-Making and a Quest 
	for the Real." Phylon 47 (June 1986): 117-27.

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Jackson, Blyden. "Richard Wright: Black Boy from America's Black Belt 
	and Urban Ghetto." CLA Journal 12 (June 1969): 287-309.

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Kinnamon, Keneth. The Emergence of Richard Wright: A Study in 
	Literature and Society. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois 
	Press, 1972.
Kinnamon, Keneth. "Call and Response: Intertextuality in Two
	Autobiographical Works by Richard Wright and Maya Angelou." 
	In Belief vs. Theory in Black American Literary Criticism, 
	edited by Joe Weixlemann and Chester J. Fontenot. Greenwood, FL: 
	Penkevill, 1986.

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MacKethan, Lucinda H. "Black Boy and Ex-Coloured Man: 
	Version and Inversion of the Slave Narrator's Quest for 
	Voice." CLA Journal 32 (Dec. 1988): 123-67.
Mechling, Jay. "The Failing of Folklore in Richard Wright's Black 
	Boy." Journal of American Folklore 104 (Summer 
	1991): 275-95.

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Ochillo, Yvonne. "Black Boy: Structure as Meaning." Griot 
	6 (Spring 1987): 49-54.
Olney, James. "The Value of Autobiography for Comparative Studies: 
	African vs. Western Autobiography." Comparative Civilizing 
	Review 2 (Spring 1979): 52-64.

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Primeau, Ronald. "Imagination as Moral Bulwark and Creative Energy 
	in Richard Wright's Black Boy and Leroi Jones's 
	Home." Studies in Black Literature 3 (1972): 12-18.

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Reilly, John M. "Self-Portrait by Richard Wright." Colorado 
	Quarterly 20 (1971): 31-45.
Romine, Scott. "History and Poetry in Richard Wright's Black Boy." 
	Hypotheses: A Neo-Aristotelian Analysis 2 (Summer 1992): 
	2-3.
Rosenblatt, Roger. "Black Autobiography: Life as the Death Weapon." 
	In Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, edited 
	by James Olney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

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Smith, Sidonie A. "Richard Wright's Black Boy: The Creative 
	Impulse as Rebellion." Southern Literary Journal 5 
	(1972): 123-36.
---. Where I'm Bound: Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black 
	American Autobiography. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 
	1974.

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Tate, Claudia C. "Black Boy: Richard Wright's 'Tragic Sense of 
	Life.'" Black American Literature Forum 10 (1976): 117-19.
Taylor, Gordon O. Chapters of Experience: Studies in Twentieth 
	Century American Autobiography. New York: St. Martin's 
	Press, 1983.

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Ward, Jerry W. "Richard Wright's Hunger." Virginia Quarterly 
	Review 54 (1978): 148-53.
Weiss, Adrian. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Black Boy." Bulletin 
	of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 28 
	(1974): 73-101.
White, Ralph K. Black Boy: A Value Analysis." Journal of 
	Abnormal and Social Psychology 42 (Oct. 1947): 440-61.
Williams, Roosevelt. "Mothers and Their Defining Role: The 
	Autobiographies of Richard Wright, George Lamming, and Camara 
	Laye." Griot 13 (Fall 1994): 54-61.

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