The Death of Bigger Than You Think

Some have said native sun offers little more than a nihilist warning of the violence that emerges from oppression. James Baldwin acknowledged that wright was on to something, conceding that no american negro exists who does not have his private bigger thomas living in the skull. But things are more complicated than this and less bleak, because one can also subdue this dark and dangerous, unloved stranger. While wright makes feel both pity and horror at the awful and inevitable doom of bigger, he ignores the resources available for avoiding that doom,. whether through self control or support from the black community. There is a connected feature of wright's fiction that may be still more troubling, its depiction of