Hunger and Self-Fashioning in Richard Wright’s Black Boy and Knut Hamsun’s Sult

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  • Daniel Rees

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.124

Abstract

Despite their obvious differences in style, setting, and literary background, Richard Wright’s novel Black Boy “and Knut Hamsun’s Sult“ share a marked similarity in their contemplation of hunger as both a social and existential issue. This matter is one that is bound up with the creation and understanding of self-fashioning and identity, as related through the subjective perceptions and experiences of the narrator.

Author Biography

Daniel Rees

Daniel Rees received his Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and holds an M.A. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in English, American and Comparative Literature. He has been working towards a PhD since summer 2008. The current paper is an extract from his dissertation project with the provisional title Hunger and the Self-Made Man“. In his thoroughly comparative project, Rees examines a range of literary works dating roughly from 1890-1950, including texts by authors across various languages and cultures.

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Rees, Daniel. “Hunger and Self-Fashioning in Richard Wright’s Black Boy and Knut Hamsun’s Sult”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 11, Mar. 2012, doi:10.5283/copas.124.

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Vol. 11 (2010)

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