These articles are 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]

Abcarian, Richard. Richard Wright's Native Son: A Critical Handbook. 
	Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1970.
Algeo, Ann. The Courtroom as Forum: Homicide Trials by Dreiser, Wright,
	Capote, and Mailer. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
Amis, Lola J. "Richard Wright's Native Son: Notes." Negro American
	Literature 8(174): 240-43.
Avery, Evelyn Gross. Rebels and Victims: The Fiction of Richard Wright and
	Bernard Malamud. Washington, DC: New York: Kennikat, 1979.
Avery, Laurence G. "Paul Green and Native Son." Carolina 
	Quarterly 46 (Fall 1993): 38-49.

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Baker, Houston A., Jr. "Racial Wisdom and Richard Wright's Native Son."
	Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture.
	Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1972.
---. "Richard Wright and the Dynamics of Place in Afro-American Literature."
	In New Essays on Native Son, edited by Kenneth Kinnamon.
	Cambridge, Mass: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
---., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Native Son. Englewood
	Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972.
Baldwin, James. "Everybody's Protest Novel." Partisan Review June 1949.
Baldwin, Richard E. "The Creative Vision of Native Son." 
	Massachusetts Review 14 (1973): 278-90.
Baron, Dennis E. "The Syntax of Perception in Richard Wright's 
	Native Son. Language and Style 9 (1976): 17-28.
Beauvais, Paul Jude. "Native Son in Prison: Rhetorical Performance
	as Restored Behavior." Text and Performance Quarterly 10 (Oct.
	1990): 306-15.
---. Richard Wright's Native Son. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.
---., ed. Bigger Thomas. New York: Chelsea House, 1990.
Boulton, H. Philip. "The Role of Paranoia in Richard Wright's Native
	Son." Kansas Quarterly 7 (1975): 111-24.
Brazinsky, Judith Giblin. "The Demands of Conscience and the Imperatives of
	Form: The Dramatization of Native Son." Black American
	Literature Forum 18 (Fall 1984): 106-9.
Brivic, Sheldon. "Conflict of Values: Richard Wright's Native Son."
	Novel 7 (1974): 231-45.
Brown, Joseph A. "I, John, Saw the Holy Number: Apocalyptic Vision in 
	Go Tell It on the Mountain and Native Son." Religion 
	and Literature 27 (Spring 95): 53-74.
Brown, Lloyd W. "Stereotypes in Black and White: The Nature of Perception
	in Wright's Native Son." Black Academy Review 1 (1970):
	35-44.
Brunette, Peter. "Two Wrights, One Wrong." In The Modern American Novel
	and the Movies, edited by Gerald Peary and Robert Shatzkin.
	New York: Ungar, 1978.
Bryant, Jerry H. "The Violence of Native Son." Southern Review
	17 (April 1981): 303-19.
Bullock-Kimball, Susanne. "The Modern Minotaur: A Study of Richard
	Wright's Native Son." Notes on Mississippi Writers
	20 (1988): 41-48.
Burgum, Edwin Berry. "The Promise of Democracy in Richard Wright's
	Native Son." The Novel and the World's Dilemmas.
	New York: Russell and Russell, 1963.
---. "Wright's Native Son and Two Novels by Zola: A Comparative
	Study." Black American Literature Forum 18 (Fall 1984):
	100-5.
---. "The Function of Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son."
	Black American Literature Forum 20 (Spring/Summer 1986):
	9-25.
---. Native Son: The Emergence of a New Black Hero. Boston:
	Twayne Publishers, 1991.

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Cauley, Anne O. "A Definition of Freedom in the Fiction of Richard
	Wright." CLA Journal 19 (1976): 327-46.
Clark, Beverly Lyon. "Bigger Thomas' Name." North Dakota Quarterly
	47 (1979): 80.
Creekmore, Herbert. "Social Factors in Native Son." University
	Review 8 (1941): 136-43.
Cripps, Thomas. "Native Son." New Letters 38 (1971): 49-63.
---. "Native Son, Film and Book: A Few Thoughts on a 'Classic.'"
	Mississippi Quarterly 42 (Fall 1989): 425-27.

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Davis, Jane. "More Force Than Human: Richard Wright's Female Characters."
	Obsidian II 1 (Winter 1986): 68-83.
De Arman, Charles. "Bigger Thomas: The Symbolic Negro and the Discrete
	Human Entity." Black American Literature Forum 12
 	(1978): 61-64.
Demarest, David P., Jr. "Richard Wright: The Meaning of Violence."
	Negro American Literature Forum 8 (1974): 236-39.
Douglas, Robert L. "Religious Orthodoxy and Skepticism in Richard
	Wright's Uncle Tom's Children and Native Son." In
	Richard Wright: Myths and Realities, edited by C. James
	Trotman. New York: Garland, 1988.

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Emanuel, James A. "Fever and Feeling: Notes on the Imagery of Native
	Son." Negro Digest 18 (1968): 16-26.

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Felgar, Robert. "'The Kingdom of the Beast': The Landscape of Native 
	Son." CLA Journal 17 (1974): 333-37.
Feuser, Willfried F. "Richard Wright's Native Son and Ousmane 
	Sembene's Le Docker noir." Komparatische Hefte 14 
	(1986): 103-16.
Fishburn, Katherine. Richard Wright's Hero: The Faces of a 
	Rebel-Victim. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1977.
Fleissner, Robert. "How Bigger's Name Was Born." Studies in Black 
	Literature 8 (1977): 4-5.
Fleming, Robert E. "O'Neill's The Hairy Ape as a Source for 
	Native Son." CLA Journal 28 (June 1985): 434-43.
France, Alan W. "Misogyny and Appropriation in Wright's Native 
	Son." Modern Fiction Studies 34 (Fall 1988): 413-14.

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Gaffney, Kathleen. "Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's Native Son." 
	Roots 1 (1970): 81-95.
Gallagher, Kathleen. "Bigger's Great Leap to the Figurative." CLA 
	Journal 27 (March 1984): 293-314.
Gardner, Laurel J. "The Progression of Meaning in the Images of 
	Violence in Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children and 
	Native Son." CLA Journal 38 (June 1995): 420-40.
Gayle, Addison. Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son. Garden 
	City, NY: Doubleday, 1980.
Gibson, Donald B. "Wright's Invisible Native Son." American 
	Quarterly 21 (1969): 728-38.
---. "Bearing Witness in Black Chicago: A View of Selected Fiction 
	by Richard Wright, Frank London Brown and Ronald Fair." CLA 
	Journal 33 (March 1990): 289-307. 
Green, Gerald. "Back to Bigger." In Proletarian Writers of the 
	Thirties, edited by David Madden. Carbondale, IL: Southern 
	Illinois University Press, 1968.
Grenander, M.E. "Criminal Responsibility in Native Son and 
	Knock on Any Door." American Literature 49 (1977): 
	221-33.
---. "Intellectual Overlordship: Blacks, Jews and Native Son." 
	The Journal of Ethnic Studies 5 (Fall 1977): 51-59.
Gross, Seymour L. "'Dalton' and Color-Blindness in Native Son." 
	Mississippi Quarterly 27 (1973-74): 75-77.

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Hakutani, Yoshinobu. "Native Son and American Tragedy: Two 
	Different Interpretations of Crime and Guilt." Centennial 
	Review 23 (1978): 208-26.
Harris, Trudier. "Native Sons and Foreign Daughters." In New Essays 
	on Native Son, edited by Keneth Kinnamon. Cambridge, MA: 
	Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Housman, John. "Native Son on Stage." New Letters 38 
	(1971): 71-82.
Howe, Irving. "Black Boys and Native Sons." A World More 
	Attractive. New York: Horizon, 1963.
Hungerford, Lynda. "Dialect Representation in Native Son." 
	Language and Style 20 (Winter 1987): 3-15.
Hynes, Joseph. "Native Son Fifty Years Later." Cimarron 
	Review 102 (Jan 1993): 91-97.

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---. "Mirror and Man: Richard Wright's Self-Concept in Bigger Thomas." 
	MAWA Review 2 (June 1986): 28-30.
Joyce, Joyce Anne. "Style and Meaning in Richard Wright's Native 
	Son." Black American Literature Forum 16 (Fall 1982): 
	112-15.

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Kearns, Edward. "The 'Fate' Section of Native Son." 
	Contemporary Literature 12 (1971): 146-55.
Kennedy, James G. "The Content and Form of Native Son." 
	College English 34 (1972): 269-83.
Kent, George E. "Richard Wright: Blackness and the Adventure of 
	Western Culture." Blackness and the Adventure of Western 
	Culture. Chicago: Third World Press, 1972.
Kinnamon, Keneth. "How Native Son Was Born." In Writing the 
	American Classics, edited by James Barbour and Tom Quirk. 
	Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
---. New Essays on Native Son." Cambridge, MA: Cambridge 
	University Press, 1990.
Klotman, Phyllis R. "Moral Distancing as a Rhetorical Technique in 
	Native Son: A Note on 'Fate.'" CLA Journal 18 
	(1974): 284-91.

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Larsen, R.B.V. "The Four Voices of Richard Wright's Native Son." 
	Negro American Literature Forum 6 (1972): 105-9.

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Magistrale, Tony. "From St. Petersburg to Chicago: Wright's Crime 
	and Punishment." Comparative Literature Studies 23 
	(Spring 1986): 59-70.
Miller, Eugene E. "Voodoo Parallels in Native Son." CLA 
	Journal 16 (1972): 81-95.
---. Voice of a Native Son: The Poetics of Richard Wright. 
	Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.
Miller, James A. "Bigger Thomas's Quest for Voice and Audience in 
	Richard Wright's Native Son." Callaloo 9 (Summer 
	1986): 501-6.
Miller, James A., ed. Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son.
	New York: MLA of America, 1997.
Montgomery, Maxine L. "Racial Armageddon: The Image of Apocalypse 
	in Richard Wright's Native Son." CLA Journal 34 
	(June 1991): 453-67.

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Nagel, James. "Images of 'Vision' in Native Son." University 
	Review 35 (1969): 109-15.
Newlin, Paul. "Why 'Bigger' Lives on: Student Reaction to Native 
	Son." In Richard Wright: Myths and Realities, 
	edited by C. James Trotman. New York: Garland, 1988.

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Ochshorn, Kathleen. "The Community of Native Son." Mississippi 
	Quarterly 42 (Fall 1989): 387-42.

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Rao, Vimak. "The Regionalism of Richard Wright's Native Son" 
	Indian Journal of American Studies 7 (1977): 94-102.
Redden, Dorothy S. "Richard Wright and Native Son: Not 
	Guilty." Black American Literature Forum 10 (1976): 
	111-16.
Reed, Kenneth T. "Native Son: An American Crime and 
	Punishment." Studies in Black Literature 1 (1970): 
	33-34.
Reilly, John M. "Giving Bigger a Voice: The Politics of Narrative in
	Native Son." In New Essays on Native Son, edited by 
	Keneth Kinnamon. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Rieke, Alison. "Articulation and Collaboration in Richard Wright's 
	Major Fiction." In Richard Wright: Myths and Realities, 
	edited by C. James Trotman. New York: Garland, 1988.

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Sadler, Jeffrey. "Split Consciousness in Richard Wright's Native 
	Son." South Carolina Review 8 (1976): 11-24.
Samples, Ron. "Bigger Thomas and His Descendants." Roots 1 
	(1970): 86-93.
Saunders, James Robert. "The Social Significance of Wright's Bigger 
	Thomas." College Literature 14 (Winter 1987): 32-37.
Savory, Jerold J. "Descent and Baptism in Native Son, Invisible 
	Man, and Dutchman." Christian Scholar's Review 3 
	(1973): 33-37.
---. "Bigger Thomas and the Book of Job: The Epigraph of Native 
	Son." Negro American Literature Forum 9 (1975): 55-56.
Scruggs, Charles W. "The Importance of the City in Native Son." 
	Ariel 9 (1978): 37-47.
Siegel, Paul N. "The Conclusion of Richard Wright's Native Son." 
	PMLA 89 (1974): 517-23.
Singh, Ameritjit. "Misdirected Responses to Bigger Thomas." Studies 
	in Black Literature 5 (1974): 5-8.
Skerrett, Joseph T. "Composing Bigger: Wright and the Making of Native
	Son." In Richard Wright's Native Son, edited by Harold 
	Bloom, 125-42. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.
Stern, Frederick C. "Native Son as Play: A Reconsideration Based 
	on a Revival." MELUS 8 (Spring 1981): 55-61.

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Taylor, Willene P. "The Blindness Motif in Richard Wright's Native 
	Son." CLA Journal 34 (Sept 1990): 44-58.
Tremaine, Louis. "The Dissociated Sensibility of Bigger Thomas in 
	Wright's Native Son." Studies in American Fiction 
	14 (Spring 1986): 63-76.

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Walls, Doyle W. "The Clue Undetected in Richard Wright's Native 
	Son." American Literature 57 (March 1985): 125-28.
Warren, Nagueyalti. "Black Girls and Native Sons: Female Images in 
	Selected Works by Richard Wright." In Richard Wright: Myths 
	and Realities, edited by C. James Trotman. New York: 
	Garland, 1988.
Wasserman, Jerry. "Embracing the Negative: Native Son and 
	Invisible Man." Studies in American Fiction 4 
	(1976): 93-104.
Watson, Edward A. "Bessie's Blues." New Letters 38 (1971): 64-70.
Werner, Craig. "Bigger's Blues: Native Son and the Articulation 
	of Afro-American Modernism." In New Essays on Native 
	Son, edited by Keneth Kinnamon. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge 
	University Press, 1990.
Williams, John A. The Most Native of Sons. Garden City, NJ: 
	Doubleday, 1970.
Witt, Mary Anne. "Rage and Racism in The Stranger and Native 
	Son." The Comparatist 1 (1977): 35-47.

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