TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright, Richard
TI  - Native Son: With plot summary, notes and study questions and essay
SN  - 978-978-51838-8-7
PB  - Seagroove Publications Ltd
KW  - Black Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mid - Twentieth Century
KW  - Racism
N2  - Native Son introduces a figure familiar to mid twentieth-century America, the lone man backed into a corner by discrimination and misunderstanding. Frustrated by racism and the limited opportunities afforded black men in society, Bigger strikes out in a futile attempt to transgress the boundaries and limits of his position. He murders Mary Dalton, the only child of a wealthy real estate magnate, by accident. Yet the act of murder gives his life meaning, and the consequent trial and execution are incidental
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