• P. Premkumar
• Dr.S.Alexander

Richard Wright, an afro American writer, according to him, “literature is a form of protest”. The themes of Afro-American Literature are African-American culture, racism, religion, slavery, segregation, migration, feminism, a sense of alienation and more by the African American writers. Richard Wright is a nihilist, naturalist, realist, socialist, communist and a strong advocator of civil right movement. He breaks through all the conventions and made a firm Black Identity in his works which make a new beginning in the history of African American. Wright, identifying himself with his heroes, representing Black people, defines “blackness” as the revolution to liberate the “whole of black man”. He gives a vivid account of the social, economical, political, and psychological environment, and their influence on the emergence of Blacks in his novels. His works are in new the tradition of American novels which deal with the search for identity, rebirth, alienation and selflessness. Black people are subjugated by white under social segregation, identity, racial discrimination, alienation, violence against black, injustice which makes Richard Wright to think for their rights. This paper aims at presenting the themes of Richard Wright’s novels.

Key Words: protest novel, alienation, psycho-analytical, social segregation, racial discrimination

"Richard Wright, an epoch, a voice of the black people", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.426-429, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902950.pdf

"Richard Wright, an epoch, a voice of the black people", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp426-429, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902950.pdf