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Pagan Spain

Name: Pagan Spain
Author: Richard Wright
ISBN: 9780061450198

by Richard Wright, Faith Berry (Introduction), Faith Berry

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Overview

"As Pagan Spain portrays midcentury Spain as a country of tragic beauty, political oppression, and contradictions, Wright amalgamates at once polemic, travel narrative, history, and journalistic essay. He combines, as well, first-person narrative, eyewitness reporting, commentary, anecdotes, vignettes, and dramatic monologue." Pagan Spain, less a journalistic account of a people and an exotic locale than it is a sociological critique of a corrupt system of government, is a daring portrait of a country in turmoil.

Synopsis

A new edition that records Wright's encounter with Franco, Iberia, and colonialism

About the Author, Richard Wright

A trailblazing African-American novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Richard A. Wright brought the experiences of the twentieth-century ghetto into the realm of high art with his blockbuster 1940 novel Native Son. He went on to mix autobiography and fiction, and to become one of the most celebrated writers -- black or white -- of his era.