{"id":117,"date":"2025-02-07T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/black-writers\/?post_type=item&#038;p=117"},"modified":"2025-02-13T16:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:19:56","slug":"the-outsider","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/item\/the-outsider\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outsider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Outsider<br>Richard Wright<br>Harper &amp; Brothers, 1953<br>First edition, signed by author&nbsp;<br>Southern Civilization Collection<br>Vanderbilt University Special Collections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard Wright was a prominent American author known for his powerful and influential works addressing racial themes and the struggles of African Americans in the early to mid-20th century.   His 1953 novel <strong><em>The Outsider<\/em><\/strong> is a significant work in the realm of existential literature. The novel explores themes of alienation, identity, and societal oppression. It is significant work dealing with the juxtaposition of individual, human existence and social dynamics which enforce cultural norms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"section":[7],"class_list":["post-117","item","type-item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-testament"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/117\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/dark-testament\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}