The Representation of racialized police violence in Richard Wright's the man who lived underground (2021)

Abstract

This investigation is a part of a contemporary critical debate about race, culture, and literature. The present research is a study of Richard Wright’s novel The Man Who Lived Underground in the light of New Historicism and Critical Race Theory. The novel was punished in 2021 after eighty years of censorship and it explores the issues of police violence and racial prejudice. The purpose of this study is to examine the anatomy racialized police brutality and its representation in the selected novel. The conclusions reached through our study will lead to a better understanding of how race bias, racial profiling, and police abuse in USA are intertwined and institutionalized