6/5/2023 0 Comments Native son novel![]() ![]() In one essay (“Everybody’s Protest Novel”) in this famous collection, Baldwin presents a harsh critique of protest fiction, including Native Son. James Baldwin, 1924-1987 Notes of a Native Son. This first edition of the book has a Book-of-the Month Club review laid in. Interestingly, the book was also a Book-of-the-Month Club selection with a large white readership. It sits firmly in the tradition of protest fiction, and reflects the social determinism Wright discovered in the theories of the Chicago School of Urban Sociology. ![]() First edition.Ĭritic Henry Louis Gates has written, “If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” This landmark work presented the world with Bigger Thomas, a tragically flawed product of a racist society. ![]()
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