5/22/2023 0 Comments Native son 1940![]() ![]() Between 19, over one million black Americans made the journey north, in what was at that time the largest migratory movement in American history. Events in History at the Time of the Novel The Great Migrationīlacks had begun leaving the South in significant numbers near the end of the nineteenth century, but in the period during and after World War I these numbers jumped dramatically. This oppressive urban environment forms the back-drop to Native Son, Wright’s first full-length novel. ![]() ![]() In doing so the Wrights joined a steady stream of black families who left behind Southern poverty and racism to search for a better life in the North, in what came to be known as the “ Great Migration.” Often, however, they merely ended up trading rural poverty for urban squalor, with only superficial changes in the racism of the surrounding white society. Richard Wright, born in 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi, moved to Chicago with his family in 1927. A novel set in Chicago in the 1930s published in 1940.Ī young black man accidentally kills a rich white girl, an act that turns out to free him psychologically from the oppressive racism that has shaped his life, even as he is hunted down and imprisoned by white society.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novel ![]()
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