Pagan Spain

A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological critique, Pagan Spain serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the grave human dangers of oppression and governmental corruption.

The Spain Richard Wright visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story, but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers in Pagan Spain is a blistering, powerful, yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil, caught in the strangling dual grip of cruel dictatorship and what Wright saw as an undercurrent of primitive faith.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/10/2023
ISBN: 9780061450198
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.02h x 6.14w x 0.87d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 56