The Death-Bound-SubjectDuring the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent, and that he could deny neither the violence he had witnessed nor his own existence as a product of racial violence. Abdul R. JanMohamed provides extraordinary insight into Wrights position in this first study to