Title
"Forged in Injustice": The Gothic Motif in the Fiction of Ernest Hemingway and Richard Wright
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Influence study focusing on the authors’ similar thematic preoccupation with dread and isolation in an impersonal world. Scruggs compares Hemingway’s use of gothic conventions, including unexpected violence, terrifying absurdity, and meaningless suffering, in In Our Time, To Have and Have Not, and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” to Wright’s Native Son (1940), Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953).
Published in
Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary
Date
2014
Pages
129-139
COinS
Citation
Scruggs, Charles. “‘Forged in Injustice’: The Gothic Motif in the Fiction of Ernest Hemingway and Richard Wright.” In Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary, edited by Alice Mikal Craven, William Dow, and Yoko Nakamura, 129-39. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.