For Wright the Black writer must forge sustaining racial myths and values

Evidence

The Negro writer who seeks to function within his race as a purposeful agent has a serious responsibility … a deep, informed, and complex consciousness is necessary; a consciousness which draws for its strength upon the fluid lore of a great people, and moulds this lore with the concepts that move and direct the forces of history today… . [T]he Negro writer … is being called upon to do no less than create values by which his race is to struggle, live and die … because his writing possesses the potential cunning to steal into the inmost recesses of the human heart, because he can create myths and symbols that inspire a faith in life. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1346

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Wright’s conception of the Black writer’s vanguard social function.