![]() ![]() ![]() To put an end to his tension, he acts, he responds to the world's anticipation." Wright based aspects of the novel on the 1938 arrest and trial of Robert Nixon, executed in 1939 following a series of "brick bat murders" in Los Angeles and Chicago. "In the end," writes Fanon, "Bigger Thomas acts. ![]() "No American Negro exists," James Baldwin once wrote, "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull." Frantz Fanon discusses this feeling in his 1952 essay "L'Expérience Vécue du Noir", or "The Fact of Blackness". Bigger's lawyer makes the case that there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American, since they are the necessary product of the society that formed them and told them since birth who exactly they were supposed to be. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Richard Wright portrays a systemic inevitability behind them. ![]() Bigger lived in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. Wright's classic story of life in the "most segregated city in America" Chicago, in the early 20th century.This outstanding novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty. Previous owner's book plate on front paste down. ![]()
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