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Bigger
A Literary Life
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Trudier Harris
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
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A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in the debates over Black men and the violence of racism
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Trudier Harris is J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor of English, emerita, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and University Distinguished Research Professor of English, emerita, University of Alabama. She is the author of numerous books, including From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature and The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South. She lives in Tuscaloosa, AL.
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Contents
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A Reason to Read . . .
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. The Birth of Bigger Thomas
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Chapter 2. Of Men and Monsters
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Chapter 3. Lightning in a Bottle
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Chapter 4. Bigger from the 1950s to the Black Arts Movement
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Chapter 5. A Controversial Classic
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Chapter 6. Bigger on Bigger
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Chapter 7. The Value of a Literary Life
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Index
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June 18, 2024
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9780300277333
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