...racism, collective liquidations, rational oppression take turns at different levels in order literally to make of the native an object in the hands of the occupying...is at this stage that the well-known guilt complex appears. In his first novels, Wright gives a very detailed description of it. Progressively, however,...

...racism, collective liquidation, rational aggression, take turns at different levels in order literally to make of the native an object in the hands of the occupying...— man, without means of existing, without a raison d'être — is broken in the very depth of his substance. The desire to live, to continue, becomes...