"A igger's place": lynching and specularity in Richard Wright's "Fire and Cloud" and 'Native Son.' - b

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5. Also Richard H. Brodhead questions the applicability of the Foucauldian shift from punir to surveiller to North American history (see Brodhead, esp. 16-17).

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Mikko Juhani Tuhkanen is a graduate student in English at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is currently writing his Ph.D. dissertation on Richard Wright at the Graduate School for Arts and Sciences at New York University.