Deep in his cultural roots Richard Wright sensed a natural creative force. He saw it as a manifestation in his grandmother's religiosity and in the lyrics of the blues and in black folk expressions.
His fascination with this -something- inspired his -blueprint for Negro writing- and led him to see connections between Gertrude Stein's use of language, the collage tecnique of surrealism, Kenneth Burke's theories of symbol/orientation formation, Wilhelm Reich's orgone theory, Japanese haiku, and the practical application of indigenous Afro-American folk expression.
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Deep in his cultural roots Richard Wright sensed a natural creative force. He saw it as a manifestation in his grandmother's religiosity and in the...