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The Bleak Resonance of ‘Native Son’ | by Gary Younge | The New York Review of Books Richard Wright Author, African American Authors, 2024 Books, Black Experience, Native Son, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, African American Culture, Black Families

Bigger Thomas is complex. Part Heathcliff, part Raskolnikov, he stalks the city—a mass of brooding resentment and violent impulsivity, in a fugue state. Brutalized and brutal, belittled and bewildered, submissive and threatening, he tears through his life, more vicious and dismissive to most of those who are close to him and show him love than those who humiliate him. Richard Wright has conjured through Bigger the personification of James Baldwin’s observation that “the most dangerous…

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