Forged in Injustice : The Gothic Motif in the Fiction of Ernest Hemingway and Richard Wright

Influence study focusing on the authors’ similar thematic preoccupation with dread and isolation in an impersonal world. Scruggs compares Hemingway’s use of gothic conventions, including unexpected violence, terrifying absurdity, and meaningless suffering, in In Our Time, To Have and Have Not, and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” to Wright’s Native Son (1940), Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953)