Native Son
(1951)

Fiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Kino Lorber, 1951
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DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 108 min.)) : sd., col

ISBN/ISSN
MWT17616049, 17616049
LANGUAGE
English
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Directed by Pierre Chenal

Gloria Madison, Charles Cane, Willa Pearl Curtis, Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Nicholas Joy

One of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright's Native Son (first published in 1940) exposed the injustices of urban African-American life, witnessed through the eyes of Bigger Thomas, whose violent tendencies and moral confusion were the natural result of a lifetime of deprivation. In prison for murder and sentenced to death, Thomas reflects on the circumstances that led to his fate

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Mode of access: World Wide Web

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