Term of Award
2011
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English (M.A.)
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Literature and Philosophy
Committee Chair
Caren Town
Committee Member 1
David Dudley
Committee Member 2
Richard Flynn
Abstract
This thesis focuses on Richard Wright's autobiography Black Boy (American Hunger) A Record of Childhood and Youth. The book's original format underwent a couple of major changes in order to be accepted by The Book-of-the-Month Club, which were the elimination of the entire second half dealing with Wright's time in the North and the rewriting of the end of the first half in order to give closure to the shortened book. In my thesis, I will discuss these changes in detail and explain how these changes undermined Wright's original intentions. Furthermore, I will show how The Book-of-the-Month- Club's influence affected the many readers of Wright's book.
Recommended Citation
Hatcher, Donald R., "Appealing to the Middlebrow Reader: Changes Made to Richard Wright's Black Boy" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 183.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/183
Research Data and Supplementary Material
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