• P.PREMKUMAR
• DR.S.ALEXANDER

Richard Wright was a significant Afro-American novelist, essayist, journalist, communist, existentialist and firm believer of social reforms. He strongly advocated civil rights as stated “All men and women are created equal”. He raised a voice for the suppressed Black against the intolerable attitudes of the White. His works evidently disclose the innermost life of black community and sufferings of the depressed black survival. His writings deliberately dealt with racial discrimination, the quest for identity and the struggle for survival of African-American. He gave a vivid account of the social, economical, political, emotional, physiological, and psychological environment, and their influence on the emergence of Blacks in his novels. Not only through his characters but also Richard Wright ultimately recognized that violence has become the integral part in our life in order to show their firm existence and to exhibit an identity as a human being to the society. He treated violence, not as destructive force but a constructive and positive element in a formative way in the modern world. Violence, the most important theme in almost all of his novels, is employed as a life giving force for survival. This paper aims at exploring how violence could help the black to establish their existence in the society which functions as a positive and formative way to shape their attitudes.

civil rights, racial discrimination, violence as constructive etc…

"“Existence through Violence” with reference to Richard Wright's Novels", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.528-533, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812072.pdf

"“Existence through Violence” with reference to Richard Wright's Novels", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp528-533, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812072.pdf