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Profissional work please. and organized.LECTURE NOTES - March 6, 2017 Literary Criticism on Richard Wright’s Native Son James Baldwin Denounced Richard Wright's Native Son as a 'Protest Novel.' Was He Right? Ayana Mathis and Pankaj Mishra The New York Times Book Review. (Mar. 1, 2015): Arts and Entertainment: p31(L). From Literature Resource Center. Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2015 The New York Times Company http://www.nytimes.com Full Text: Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Ayana Mathis and Pankaj Mishra discuss James Baldwin's reaction to Richard Wright's ''Native Son,'' which was published 75 years ago. By Ayana Mathis I don't imagine many black people would have embraced such a grotesque portrait of themselves. James Baldwin excoriated the protest novel as a pamphlet in literary disguise, tenanted by caricatures in service to a social or political agenda. Its failure, he wrote, lay in ''its insistence that it is . . . categorization alone which is real and which cannot be transcended.'' Bigger Thomas, the protagonist of Richard Wright's ''Native Son,'' cannot transcend blackness, and his blackness, in Wright's hands, is as ugly and debased a thing as ever was. Whether the book is a protest novel, or even whether it fails as a work of literature, are questions unworthy of a groundbreaking work that continues to inspire debate 75 years after its publication. More relevant is the matter of its resonance in our time, so distant from Wright's own. ''Native Son'' sold an astonishing 215,000 copies within three weeks of publication. Thus, a great many people received a swift and unsparing education in the conditions in which blacks lived in ghettos all over America. Of course, black people already knew about all of that, so it is safe to conclude that Wright's intended audience was white.