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the legacy of modernism in the early century,
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but there's another strain from
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the early century
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that matters--
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and matters particularly to Richard Wright
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--and that is the American strain of naturalism:
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writers like theodore Dreiser.
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Wright is writing very much
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in the vein of those writers.
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So even though he's very closely connected to
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the legacy of avant-garde modernism,
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he's also connected to a social