Pagan Spain

<p><strong>A master chronicler of the African-American experience Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with <em>Pagan Spain</em> originally published in 1957. An amalgam of expert travel reportage dramatic monologue and arresting sociological critique <em>Pagan Spain</em> serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the grave human dangers of oppression and governmental corruption.</strong></p><p>The Spain Richard Wright visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers in <em>Pagan Spain</em> is a blistering powerful yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil caught in the strangling dual grip of cruel dictatorship and what Wright saw as an undercurrent of primitive faith. </p>