Native Son grew directly from Wright’s break with party dogmatism

Evidence

This, then, is the crisis that informed the development of Bigger Thomas. Native Son was the result of Wright’s resolve to have his say, his revision of American Marxism as it emerged from the lives and practices of American Communists: I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo; and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1362

Categorization

• XREF: Traces the origin of Native Son to a party crisis, echoing how earlier chapters traced the Black radical tradition’s literary products to concrete political ruptures.