Pagan Spain

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  • 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.
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