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Professor Amy Hungerford points out in her Open Yale lectures:http://academicearth.org/lectures/ame...that there is a certain amount of well-founded doubt as to the absolute accuracy of this work as an autobiography. Wright, however, does not claim this as his life, but rather as a Record of Youth and Childhood, the tale of a Black Boy growing up in the Southern States between the two World Wars. Thus a generic life. There can be no doubt whatsoever about its emotional authenticity. I read this with a kind of ghastly horrified fascination, thinking only what a dreadful time and place for an intelligent young black man to be alive.As a boy, Richard is routinely, relentlessly, habitually beaten: by his mother and his grandmother, and later the same kind of treatment is attempted by an uncle and an aunt. But this is no mawkish misery memoir of the kind that seemed to dominate the bestseller lists for a while, spawning a whole spate of copycat accounts of dubious provenance, this is not the uplifting tale of one persons triumph over adversity. No, this is generic: that kind of upbringing was the best-intentioned attempt by Richards family to beat out of him a characteristic that might prove fatal to a black man living under the Jim Crow statutes: a sense of self-worth. An attitude that the whites might perceive to be sassy. Richard is beaten for being lippy, for talking back, for claiming that there is a version of the truth that he sees and that may be at odds with the truth of authority. All untenable, dangerous positions for a black man to take. His mother and grandmother know the only way for a black man to survive: by turning into a childish buffoon or a servile idiot, the roles expected by that white culture that surrounds them. They recognize, too, the danger that a rebellious young man may find the only outlet for his aspirations the creativity of crime, how best to cheat and steal, and they take refuge in exaggerated religiosity that offers rules but no comfort. Certainly Richard can find nothing for himself there.Prof. Hungerford also tells the publication history of this work: it was originally one third longer than the version I read, was written in two parts. Southern Night is basically what we have here, and The Horror and the Glory, which follows Richard after he moved to Chicago in 1927, at the age of nineteen. At the time of its publication in 1944, the Book of the Month Club is a hugely influential marketing tool, and their board decides that they dont want the second section at all, and in fact that is what Richard Wright agrees to. But what difference does this make? Well, any novel of this kind can be seen as a Bildungsroman, the story of a youth and his development to manhood. The point is that manhood cannot be attained in that place at that time. Richard needs a second childhood in Chicago in order to attain that state of autonomous, thinking individual whose opinion is sought and valued. In Jackson, even in Memphis (more urban) he is required to remain a child in order to survive. His first venture into the white world of work illustrates this clearly:Do you want this job? the woman asked.Yes, maam, I said, afraid to trust my own judgement.Now, boy, I want to ask you one question and I want you to tell me the truth, she said.Yes, maam, I said, all attention.Do you steal? she asked me seriously.I burst into a laugh and then checked myself.Whats so damn funny about that? she asked.Lady, if I was a thief, Id never tell anybody. (p 145)Richard realises his mistake immediately: he has recognized the naivety of the question, has betrayed his shock at an attitude of mind that will not even allow him the subtlety of intellect to see the possibility of telling a self-serving untruth when necessary. He sees that white people want to keep him and other black men in their place: and their place is that of a subservient child, or even an animal-like plaything for the amusement of the whites. He has to get out of the South, not only because his ego is in danger of going under, but, as is constantly brought home, he is in mortal danger. Lynchings are part of his reality.How does he survive, how does he manage to emerge from this? Stories. First reading, initially escapist fantasies, and then also writing. Then later, through a subterfuge with a library ticket, as he is not allowed to borrow from the library himself, he reads voraciously, finding that it was out of the emotional impact of imaginative construction of heroic or tragic deeds, that I felt touching my face a tinge of warmth from an unseen light; and in my leaving I was groping toward that invisible light, always trying to keep my face so set and turned that I would not lose the hope of its faint promise, using it as my justification for action. (p.260-261) The aspirational power of literature is what saves him: it offers him the idea of another world, a world that he, too, can be part of.
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