Table of Contents
Introduction: Adapting Richard Wright for Stage and Screen
Tara T. Green and Charles I. Nero
Essays
Revisioning Bessie in Native Son
Tara T. Green
Richard Wright’s Huntress: A Transgenerational Experience
Julia Wright
Uncle Tom’s Daughter: Sarah versus the Enduring Misogyny of Wright’s “Long Black Song”
Sondra Bickham Washington
“This Is a Man’s World”: Richard Wright Just Won’t Give a Sistah a Break in “Long Black Song”
Neal A. Lester
Bigger and Bessie on Nambi E. Kelley’s Stage: Adapting Native Son’s Genre and Gender for the Twenty-First Century
Florian Bousquet
More Than a Black Rat Sonofab----: Animality in Defining Americanness and the Human in Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son
DeLisa D. Hawkes
Redeeming Bigger Thomas: Rashid Johnson and Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Woke” Native Son
Charles I. Nero
Interview
Playwright Nambi Kelley Finds the Love: Adapting Richard Wright’s Native Son
Tasha M. Hawthorne
Contributors