What is the general genre of the book black boy?
full title · Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth author · Richard Wright type of work · Autobiographical novel genre · Bildungsroman (coming-of age-novel); modernist novel; existential novel language · English time and place written · 1943–1944; New York City date of first publication · 1945 publisher · Harper & Brothers narrator · Black Boy is narrated by the author, Richard Wright, and tells the story of his life from early childhood to about age twenty-nine. point of view · As the text is written as a stylized memoir, the narrator always speaks in the first person. Although he occasionally speculates as to what another character thinks or feels, those speculations are always conditioned by the fact that the narrator is a real historical figure with limited knowledge.
