Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections

Contributors

Ngwarsungu Chiwengo is associate professor of English and director of the World Literature Program at Creighton University. She has published articles on both African and African American literature and several book reviews. Currently, she is working on a book about the South African writer Peter Abrahams. Dennis F. Evans just completed a Ph.D. in eighteenth-century British literature at the University of North Texas. He is currently working on his first book: “The Afro-British Slave Narratives : The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of Abolition,” examining the British abolition in the context of Christian and secular rhetorical models of kairos. Yoshinobu Hakutani is professor of English at Kent State University. He is the author or editor of many books on Richard Wright, Theodore Dreiser, and cross-culturalism. His books include Critical Essays on Richard Wright; The City in African-American Literature co-edited with Robert Butler; Richard Wright and Racial Discourse; and Richard Wright’s Haiku: This Other World, co-edited with Robert Tener. Keneth Kinnamon is the Ethel Pumphrey Stephens Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is a distinguished Wright scholar and known for his publication of A Richard Wright Bibliography: Fifty Years of Criticism and Commentary, 1933–1982. His most recent work is Conversations with Richard Wright which he co-edited with Michel Fabre. He is currently working on a book to be titled “Hemingway and Politics.” John Lowe, professor of English at Louisiana State University, is author of Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston’s Cosmic Comedy, editor of Conversations with Ernest Gaines and Redefining Southern Culture, and co-editor of The Future of Southern Letters. He is currently completing The Americanization of Ethnic Humor, a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary examination of changing patterns in American comic literature. 229 Contributors Jack B. Moore currently is graduate director in the Department of English, the University of South Florida, where he has also held a long-time appointment in the Department of American Studies. He has published books and critical essays on W. E. B. Du Bois, Joe DiMaggio, John Updike, and Chester Himes, and several on Richard Wright. His opinion pieces on race, sports, and the American scene are regularly distributed by the Newsday-Los Angeles Times syndicate. S. Shankar teaches in the Department of English, Rutgers University (Newark). He is the author of a novel, A Map of Where I Live, a work of cultural criticism entitled Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity and the Economy of the Text, and articles which have appeared in a variety of journals. Virginia Whatley Smith is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has published essays in African American Review, OBSIDIAN, and Mississippi Quarterly as well as the MLA Approaches to Teaching Wright’s Native Son. She currently is working on a second book entitled “Richard Wright’s Re/Construction of Blackness: An Intellectual Biography of His Life Through His Writings.” 230 Contributors ...