Talk:Uncle Tom's Children
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Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of novellas and the first book published by African-American author Richard Wright, who notably went on to write Native Son (1940), Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). When it was first published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children included only four short stories: "Big Boy Leaves Home," "Down by the Riverside," "Long Black Song," and "Fire and Cloud." "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" and "Bright and Morning Star," which are now the first and final pieces, respectively, were added when the book was republished in 1940.[1]
- I am not certain about citing Encyclopedia Brittanica here; my main concern was that the information in the original intro paragraph was not cited.
- I would like to re-write the introductory paragraph, the goal being to make the content more clear and descriptive. Two specific things I would like to address: changing Uncle Tom's Children's classification as a collection of short stories to a collection of novellas, since that is the term used in the publication itself, as well as more true to the length of the stories. I would also like to remove the description of the work as successful, since this seems like a rather unclear/subjective description. Eavanh (talk) 20:41, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
References
- ^ "Uncle Tom's Children | collection of novellas by Wright". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
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Title[edit]
The title of Richard Wright's collection is derived from Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," an anti-slavery novel with a Christian lens. It is noteworthy that while Uncle Tom's Cabin may have been initially received as abolitionist among the white people of the 1850s, more recent criticism notes that the novel casts its black characters as racist stereotypes.